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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



In his Supplementary account, Josselyn 2d voy. 77 mentions the " mandrake, it is a very rare 

 plant, the Indians know it not, it is found in the woods about Pascataway " (Podophyllum petiatum) ; 

 "the'yellow lysimachus of Virginia" called "tree-primrose" (Oenothera biennis) ; " herba-paris, one- 

 berry, herb true love, or four-leaved night-shade" (Trillium erectum) ; and "fuss-balls . . . bigger 

 by much than any I have seen in England " (Lycoperdon). — In the preceding identification ot the 

 plants mentioned by Josselyn, it will be observed, that I have in most instances followed Russel in 

 trans, agricult. and Tuckerman in archaeolog. amer. iv. 



" In this year" (Chalm., and Holmes), governor Sayle of Carolina, dissatisfied with Port Royal, 

 removing Northward to the neck of land between Ashley and Cooper rivers, where he laid out a 

 town to be called in honour of the king " Charleston." 



" The same year" (Charlev., and Holmes), at St. Mary's Fall, congress between the French and 

 the aboriginal Tribes ; and submission professed by the latter to the king of France. 



"June 14th '' (narrat., A. White edit. 7), Frederick Martens of Hamburg, on a whaling voyage, 

 arriving in Spitzbergen. Among the plants observed, he mentions "four crowsfeet," the fourth having 

 "but one long stalk whereon sprouted out one single leaf" (Ranunculus nivalis), another, fig. 10 (R. 

 sulphureus), another, burning the tongue, its flowers " small and the seed-vessels are like one another" 

 (R. I.apponieus), the third, burning the tongue, very small and white-flowered, its "leaves are thick 

 and juicy" (R. pygmaeus) ; a "small plant exactly like to these, only the flowers " purple, "and the 

 leaves not so juicy " (Saxilraga cemud) ; " the white poppy whereof we stuck the flowers in our hats " 

 (Papaver nudieaule) ; scurvy-grass, " much weaker than the scurvy-grass of our countries so that we 

 eat it instead of salad " (Cochlearia Groenlandicd) ; an herb with "smooth-edged leaves by pares, 

 they are rough and like mouse-ear" (Ccraslium alpinum) ; a plant with "roundish leaves by pairs on 

 creeping stalks" which are "somewhat knotty and woody " (Andromeda tetragoua) ; an herb that 

 "agreeth in its leaves with the strawberry," but "the flower is yellow " (Potentilla nivea) ; "a kind 

 of stone-crap, but the leaves are rough and hairy," the flowers "purple" (Saxifrage biflora) ; "a 

 very pretty herb " with "thick prickly and sad green leaves like those of aloes, a brown naked stalk " 

 whereon "hang round heads of flesh-coloured flowers" (S. -.te/laris); a "small house-leek" with 

 leaves "indented and very like those of our dasies " (S. nivalis); S. rivularis t. H. f. c (Spreng.) ; 

 "red sorrel," the "leaves of that of Spitzbergen are red" (Oxyria di^yua) ; "a small snake-weed," 

 the root "lieth twisted in the ground" (Polygonum viviparum) and Salix Polaris t. G. f. b (Spreng.). 

 " In this year " (Winckl.), arrival of Paul Hermann in Ceylon, meeting with Justicia Moretiana 

 B. 3. I, Isolepis tristaihya 47. 2 or Seirpus (Oncostylis) eapillaris (Pers.), Mollugo pentaphylla 7, 

 Samara lacta 31, Eloeagnus' latifolia 39. 2, Spermacoce artieularis 20. 3, Ardisia humilis 103, Chi- 

 ronia trinervia 67, Impatiens comuta 16. I, La/iaya spadieea 65. 2, Ouirivelia Zeylaniea 12. I, 

 Wrightia Zeylaniea 12. 2, Drosera Purmauui 94. 2, Burmannia distic/ia 20. I, A sparagus falcatus 

 13. 2, Afemecylou capitellatum 30, Tribulus lauugiuosus 106. I, Euphorbia parviflora 105. 2, Gom- 

 phia Zevloniea 56, Cistus Aegyptiacus 36, Leueas bijlora 63. I, Cleome dodciandia 100. 1, Connarus 

 Asiaticus 109, Polygala theezaus 85, Doliehos medicagiueus 84. 2, Stylosanthes mueronata 106. 2, 

 Alysicarpus vaginalis 49. I, Desmodium biarticulatum 50. 2, D. hetei ophvllum 54. I, Indigofera hir- 

 suta 14, Tephrosia maxima 108. 2, Inula Inaiea 55. 2, A ntidesma Zeylaniea 10, Aeaeia pennata I, 

 Asplenium faleatum 43, Ptcris crenata 87, Adiantum caudatum 5. 1, and Meuispcrmum peltatnm pi. 

 101. — After residing there as a physician he returned "in 1679," and the plants he collected were 

 published by Burmann " in 1737 " under the title of Thesaur. ceilan. 



li'a/theria Indiea of Tropical climates from Africa throughout the Malayan and Polynesian 

 archipelagoes. Suffruticose, yellow-flowered, and two to three feet high, called in Burmah '• penlay 

 htse " (Mason); observed by Hermann — (Burin, pi. 68), and Moon, on Ceylon ; by N'immo in both 

 Concans, and by Law " common on sandstone hills at Badamee, Bagulkote," in the environs of Bom- 

 bay (Graham); by Mason in Burmah, enumerated as indigenous; bv Blanco, in the street of a town 

 on the Philippines ; by myself, to all appearance indigenous on Feejeean, and Hawaiian Islands. 

 Westward, by Bojer on the Mauritius Islands; by myself, on Zanzibar; and is known to grow in 

 Equatorial Africa along the Atlantic (R. Brown cong.,and Webb in fl. Nigr.). Farther West, was 

 observed by myself along roadsides and in open situations around Rio Janeiro ; is known to occur in 

 other parts of Tropical America (A. Dec), and according to Chapman as far North as the point of 

 Florida. Transported to Europe, is described by Plukenet pi. 150. 



" 1672 A. U." (art de verif.), in Japan, the Dutch subjected to new exactions depriving them of 

 expected profit. They however persisted in maintaining trade* 



* M elianthus major of Austral Africa. Brought in this year to Europe — (Linn.), and some- 

 what later described by Hermann lugd. 117 (Spreng.); continuing under cultivation, and thence 

 introduced into the greenhouses of Northeast America. Known to grow wild in Austral Africa (Pers.). 



