0^2 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



covered " June 17th " (Charlev., and Holmes) the "great river Mississippi." Entering and descending, 

 '•at the end of several days solitude, they came among savage Indians, were friendly received, and 

 heard that the sea was within two or three days sail of them ; which was the gulph of Mexico. Thus 

 he discovered all that inland part of North America along the river, from thirty-eight to thirty-four 

 degrees of north latitude, lying on the back of Canada, Virginia, etc. down to Florida." 



S "In this year" (Hurab. cosm. ii.), experiments on the length of the seconds' pendulum at 

 Cayenne by Richer, and on the West coast of Africa by Varin : demonstrating, decrease of gravity 

 from the pole to the Equator. 



"In this year" (Linn. fl. suec), Til-lands publishing his Catalogue of plants around Aboa. 

 enumerating Ranunculus reptans 57 : — a Second edition with plates " in 1683," and died " in 1692 " 

 (Spreng.). 



" In this year " (Spreng), Kyllingius publishing his memoir in the Act. Hafn. ; — "in 16S8," his 

 Virid. Dan. ; and died "in 1696." 



" 1674, Feb. 9th" (Chalm., and Holmes), signing at Westminster of a treaty of peace between 

 England and Holland. 



"In this year" (Linn. fl. suec), Nic. Grimmius of Gothland resident physician on Ceylon.— 

 He enumerates Ceylon plants in Acad. nat. Cur. and Act. Haffn. as "planta mirabilis distillatoria" 

 {Nepenthes distillatoria) "zedoaria Zeylanica " (. . . ), "planta stercoraria" ( . . . ), "convolvulus 

 syriacus" (Ipomaea obscura). He died "in 171 1 " (Spreng.). 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Boccone publishing his plants observed in Sicily, 

 Malta, Italy, and France, enumerating Convaa Aegyptiaca sic. 7, Poa Sicula t. 33, Andropogon dis- 

 tachvos t. II, Scabiosa urccolata t. 52, Parictaria Lusitanica 24, Plantago macrorhiza t. 15, Tillaea 

 muscosa t 29, Campanula mollis 45, Achyranthus argentca 9, Paronychia cchinata t. 20. f. III. 39, 

 Eryngium tricuspidatum 47, Athamantha Sicula 14, Bubon Statins 27. 28, Statice monopetala 16. 

 17," Allium Siculum 33, Glinus lotoides 11, Nepeta Apuleii 25, Linaria multicaulis 19, Biscutella 

 raphanifolia 23, Cardamine Graeca 44, Hcpcris Africana 42, Malope malacoides 8, Ononis varie- 

 g;ala 38J Senecio delphinifolius 51, .5". airvsanthanifolius 36, Inula foetida 13, Centaurea sempervirens 

 39, Cvnoiuorittni coccineum 43, Ambrosinia Bassit, Poterium hybridttm 30. 



Sida rhombifolia of Tropical Africa. Transported to Europe, was observed by Boccone rar. sic. 

 6 on Sicily — (Spreng.), and was received by Cavanilles i. pi. 3 from the Canaries (Webb). Known 

 to grow on the Cape Verd Islands (Webb), and from Guinea (J. D. Hook.) to Abyssinia (A. Rich.) ; 

 observed by Roxburgh in Bengal, according to Drury indigenous and yielding fibres. Clearly by 

 European colonists, was carried to the Mauritius Islands (Bo}., and A. Dec), and to America: was 

 received by Dillenius pi. 172, and Cavanilles, from "India orientali" and "Jamaica" (Pers.) ; by 

 Hooker, from Buenos Ayres ; by Decandolle, from Brazil, the West Indies, and Carolina; was 

 observed by Baldwin at 31 in Florida; by N T . A. Ware, at "St. Johns, about settlements;" by 

 Chapman, "around dwellings, Florida to North Carolina and westward." 



Centaurea MeliUnsis of the Mediterranean countries. An annual described by Boccone sic. 35 

 — (Spreng.); termed "carduus stellatus luteus capitulo minus spinoso" by Tournefort inst. 440, and 

 known to grow on Melita and about Montpelier, observed bv Sibthorp from the Peloponnesus to 

 Rhodes. By European colonists was carried to Northeast America (A. Dec). 



"The same year" (hist coll. Mass. i. 141, and Holmes), a historical account of the aboriginals 

 of New England, their numbers, customs, manners, religion, government, and condition, completed by 

 Daniel Gookin. 



" 1675 A. D." (Klapr. mem. iii. 195), Simaye" tsagbema with two companions in a large junk, 

 sailing from Fatsisio Southeast reached a group of " eighty islands " (Bonin Islands), and made a 

 map of them. The islands continued uninhabited, though long known to the Japanese under the 

 name of their discoverer Ok.issa wara. 



"June 24th" (Holmes), in New England, beginning of the second serious war with aboriginal 

 Tribes : incited by Metacom, called "king Philip." — In the following year, the war was brought to a 

 close by the death of Metacom. 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith, Spreng., and Winckl.), after his Indice piant. Bologn. "in 1652," 

 Zanoni publishing his Istor. Bot, enumerating* Stachys gltttinosa pi. 81, Satt^uisoi ba media 138, 

 Borate Cretica 37, Nmica violacea 35, Gitcttarda M atthiola 154. 155, Bupleurnni BalJcnse 40, Sittm 



* Sida carpinifolia of Tropical America. Abounding in waste ground and near dwellings in 

 Brazil and the West Indies (A. Saint-Hil., and A. Dec). Transported to Europe, is described by 

 Zanoni 114 — (Spreng.). Linnaeus, Jacquin ic. rar. i. pi. 135, and Cavanilles v. pi. 134 and i. pi. 3: by 

 European colonists also, was carried to Madeira and the Canary Islands (Pers., and Webb); to the 

 Mauritius Islands, observed there along roadsides by Bojer p. 32. 



