OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 967 



(Mason): observed by Rumphius vi. pi. 65 on Ceylon— (Pers.) ; by Prevost voy. xx. 152, Sta. 

 Maria, Mercado, and Blanco, frequent on the Philippines, celebrated as an antidote in wounds with 

 poisoned weapons and for its diuretic and other medicinal properties ; by Mason v. 495, " exotic " in 

 Burraah, " cultivated by the natives for its medicinal properties ; " by Roxburgh, in Eastern Hin- 

 dustan ; by Nimmo, in the Concan South from Bombay (Graham) ; is attributed by Richard to the 

 Mauritius Islands and termed " acmella mauritiana" (Pers.). Transported to Europe, is described 

 by Plukenet aim. pi. 159, Seba i. pi. 9 and 10, and Linnaeus; and according to Clot-Bey has recently 

 been introduced by the way of France into Egypt. 



Vandellia Crustacea of the countries around the Indian Ocean. Observed by Rumphius v. pi. 

 170 on the Moluccas ; — known to grow also in Tropical Australia and in China (Benth.). West- 

 ward, seems devoid of a Sanscrit name (Pidd.), but was observed by Rheede ix. pi. 58 in Malabar; 

 by Graham, " common in the rains " in the environs of Bombay, and by Roxburgh in other parts of 

 Hindustan ; is known to grow also about the Red Sea, and on Madagascar and the Mauritius Islands 

 (Benth.). By European colonists, was carried to Brazil and Guayana (A. Dec). 



Oplismenus Burmanni of Tropical climates. A grass observed by Rumphius iv. pi. 5; — by 

 myself, on the Philippines, and from the Feejeean to the Taheitian and Hawaiian Islands, to all 

 appearance indigenous in the forest. Westward from the Malayan archipelago, is described by Bur- 

 mann ind. pi. 12 and was observed in Hindustan by Roxburgh ; by Graham, in the environs of Bom- 

 bay " generally found under the shade of trees ; " and is known to grow in Equatorial Africa along 

 the Atlantic (Benth. fl. Nigr.). Farther West, is known to grow in Tropical America (H. and Bonpl., 

 Kunth, and A. Dec), and in "shady woods Florida to North Carolina" (Chapm.). 



" 1670 A. D." (Chalm., and Holmes), treaty of Madrid, between Spain and England: each to 

 retain of American territory the portion in its possession ; and the subjects of neither, to enter the 

 fortified places of the other for purposes of trade. The buccaneers were in consequence no longer 

 protected by England, and all commissions to them were annulled. 



"In this year" (Humb. cosm. ii.), measurement of a degree by Picard. Leading Newton to 

 resume his theory of gravitation, that had occurred to him four years previously. 



" In this year" (San-kokf transl. Klapr.), letters patent issued to Nori-firo, now at the age of 

 "eleven," hereditary prince of Matsmaye. Without asking leave, Siyam-siya-in made himself chief, 

 built a strong castle on the East side of Yeso, and was joined by a Japanese miner who married his 

 daughter. Other miners and falconers were living in the Northern portion of Yeso, but from 

 this time all Japanese quit the territory, being unwilling to live under the Aino government. 



"The same year" (Pauth. 443), in China, report from the president of the tribunal of rites on 

 the Christians : That having no ceremony relating to ancestors, in disregard of their own precept 

 of honouring father and mother, and the missionaries professing to forgive sins, the religion cannot 

 be true. A decree in consequence by the emperor Khang-hi, prohibiting Christianity. 



1671 A. D., Josselyn residing at " Scarborow," about 43° 40' on the seacoast of New England * 



* Angelica triquinata of Northeast America. The wild angelica "minoris" seen by Josselyn 

 45 in New England, — maybe compared: A. triquinata was observed by Torrey as far South as 

 41 on the Hudson ; by myself recently on Starucca creek ; by Pursh, from Canada to the moun- 

 tains of Virginia; by Short, in Kentucky; by Nuttall, probably on the Arkansas: is termed " arch- 

 angelica hirsuta " by Torrey and Gray, growing in "dry open woods, New York to Michigan, and 

 southward." 



Oxalis stricta of North America. The "wood-sorrel with the yellow flower" is enumerated by 

 Josselyn rar. 47 as peculiar to North America: — has been observed by myself to all appearance 

 indigenous from 45° to 40°, though often springing up in clearings and cultivated ground ; by A. Gray, 

 " borders of woods, fields, and cultivated grounds common ; " by Pursh, in cultivated ground from 

 Pennsylvania to Virginia ; and according to Hooker, grows to the Saskatchewan and West of the 

 Rocky mountains. Transported to Europe, is described by Linnaeus, Jacquin pi. 4, and in the fl. 

 Dan. pi. 873 ; has become a weed in cultivated ground in Britain (A. Dec), occurring also in Switz- 

 erland, Russia, Western and Eastern Asia (Wats.). 



Goodyera pubescens of Northeast America. A woodland Orchid called rattlesnake-plantain (A. 

 Gray), its ovate leaves spreading on the ground and conspicuously reticulated with white, described 

 by Josselyn pi. 67 as " a kind of pirola," its leaf " embroydered, as it were, with many pale-yellow ribs : " 



growino- according to Pursh from Canada to Florida ; observed by myself from 44 throughout 



New England; by Schweinitz, at 36 in Upper Carolina; by Elliot, in the middle and upper district 

 of Carolina and Georgia ; by Chapman, " Florida, and northward ; " and by Short, in Kentucky. 



Sambucus racemosa of North America. The red-berried elder, distinguished by Josselyn 50 as 

 the "dwarf-elder" — observed by Michaux in Canada and on high mountains in Pennsylvania and 



