OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 975 



42' S. alt. five thousand feet," the flowers lilac. Transported to Europe, is described by Breynius pi. 

 34, Plukenet aim. pi. 388, and Dillenius elth. pi. 106. "E. Carolinianus " was observed by Conrad as 

 tar North as 40 near Philadelphia ; by myself, on the Delaware peninsula ; by Croom, near Newbern : 

 by Elliot, in South Carolina ; by Nuttall, in Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia ; by N. A. Ware, in 

 Florida ; by Chapman, " Florida to Mississippi, and northward ; " by E. James, in Louisiana ; by 

 Pitcher, in Arkansas ; and by Sloane i. pi. 156, on Jamaica. 



Herpestis Monuieri of Tropical and Subtropical America ? A smooth small and somewhat creep- 

 ing herb, having a Sanscrit name (Pidd., and A. Dec), observed by Rheede x. pi. 14 in Malabar ; — 

 by Graham, around Bombay " generally to be met with on the margins of tanks," by myself on the 

 Deccan ; by Roxburgh, as far as Bengal, its expressed juice rubbed on parts affected with rheumatic 

 pains; by Mason, in Burmah, enumerated as indigenous; by myself, on the Philippines, and Hawai- 

 ian Islands ; is known to grow also on the Marquesas Islands (Pers), New Zealand (Raoul), and in 

 Tropical Australia (Benth.). Westward, is known to grow in Yemen (Schimp., and herb. Dec); and 

 in Equatorial Africa (Boj., and Benth.). Farther West, according to A. Gray, grows as far North as 

 38°, "Maryland and southward along the coast;" was observed by Elliot, and Leconte, in South 

 Carolina and Georgia ; by Chapman, " Florida to North Carolina, and westward ; " by Nuttall, along 

 the Mississippi near New Orleans; by Sloane pi. 129, Jacquin obs. pi. 1, and Swartz obs., in the 

 West Indies (Pers.); by Humboldt and Bonpland, on Cuba (Kunth); by myself, in Brazil, and Peru; 

 and was received by Bentham from Buenos Ayres and Chili. 



Lhiinanthemiim cristatum of Madagascar or Hindustan. An aquatic with small white flowers 

 growing from the petioles, observed by Rheede xi. pi. 29 in Malabar, — by Graham in " Kandalla 

 tank, common in the Concans," by Roxburgh cor. ii. pi. 105 in Bengal. Westward, by Bojer on 

 Madagascar, and received by Grisebach from the Mauritius Islands (A. Dec). 



" 1677 A. D." (Chalm., and Holmes), in England, the Northern boundary of Massachusetts fixed 

 at three miles North of the Merrimack: but pending negotiations between Charles II. and the pro- 

 prietor of Maine, the proprietor's interest was purchased by an agent of Massachusetts. 



"In this and the following year " (Humb. cosm. v.), an important catalogue of Southern stars 

 made by Halley at St. Helena : including however none under the sixth magnitude. 



" 1678 A. D." (Humb. cosm. ii.), Lister maintaining that each kind of rock has its own fossils : 

 and that these are all "specifically different" from the somewhat similar ones in the present sea — 

 Lister died "in 1711." 



" Sept. 6th " (Blair), the Popish plot in England discovered by Oates. 



"In this year" (coll. hist. vi. 223, and Holmes), Salem in New England containing "eighty-five 

 houses, and three hundred polls : " and New York city (Chalm. i. 597), "three hundred and forty-three 

 houses." 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Jac. Breyn publishing his Exot. plant, cent., enumerating* Salvia 

 paniculata pi. 85, IVachendorfia Iiirsuta 37, Eriocaulon triangutare 50, Leucadendron decurrcns 9, 

 Lobelia pinifolia 87, L. coronopifolia 88, L. Breynii 89, Chironia linoides 90, Myrsine Africana 5, 

 Phylica brunioides 7, Brunia nodifiora 10, Staavia radiata 82, Laserpitium pruthenicum 84, Tulipa 

 Breyniana 36, Eriospermum latifolium 41, Erica cerinthoides 33, Gnidia simplex 6, Cassia gran dis 

 14, C. mollis 21, C.flexuosa 23, C. glandulosa 24, Melastoma holosericeum 2, Oxalis speciosa 46, Me- 

 sembrianthemum molle 81, M . expansum 79, Leonotis leonurus 86, Pelargonium lacerum 59, Polygala 

 teretifolia 49, Borbonia cordata 28, B. crenata 28, Clitoria Brasiliana 32, Colutea frutescens 29, Psora- 

 lea aphylla 25, Trigonella spinosa 33, Athanasia capita/a 78, Artemisia vermiatlata 12, Gnnpha'ium 

 nudifolium 71, Senecio pubigerus 6;, .S". longifolhcs 63, S. purpureas 67, Inula pinifolia 64, Cenia 

 turbinata 73, Osteospermum moniliferum 76, Othonna bulbosa 66, Stoebe ericoides 10, Croton solani- 

 folium 54, Phyllanthus rhqinnoides 4, Leptocarpus simplex 91, Inga cinerea 15, Afimosa sensitiva 16, 

 M. polydactyla 18, Asplcnium nidus 99, A. Breynii 97, Lycopodium plumosum 100-1, and Lygodium 

 scandens, — Breyn described in the Ephem. nat. cur. Metastelma pamiflorum 1. 4. 138, and Cynan- 

 chum Indicum (Spreng.). 



"In this year " (Spreng.), after his Hort. Bles. auct. " in 1669," and Umbell. " in 1672," Morison 

 publishing his Hist. Plant., enumerating Laserpitium hirsicttcm 9. 15, Cachrys microcarpa 9. 1. 1, 

 Daucus Mauritanicus 9. 13. f. 6, D. polygamus 9. 13. f. 5, Myrrhis colorata 9. 10. f. ult., Osmorhiza 



* Cotula coronopifolia of the seashore of Austral Africa. Described by Breyn exot. 76 — 

 (Spreng.), and already naturalized in Friesland in the days of Linnseus sp. p. 1257 ; speading subse- 

 quently to.various points along the seashore from Germany to Portugal and Cadiz (Pers., Koch, and 

 Reuter) : possibly by European colonists also, carried to " South America and New Zealand " 

 Known to grow in Austral Africa (Pers.), the home according to A. Decandolle of all the species of 

 Cotula. 



