OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 991 



In this year" (Linn. fl. suec), Olaus Bromelius publishing his Chloris Gothica, an account of 

 the plants around Gothoburg . . . — He died " in 1705 " (Spreng.). 



At this time (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Hermann writing his Parad., enumerating* Holosteuin 

 cordatum par. n, Amaryllis equestris 194, A. longifolia 195, Albuca minor 209, Tiarella cordifolia 

 130, hilene viridiflora 199, Cereus lanuginosus 115, Geum Virginicum 111, Hyssopus scrophulariae- 

 jolms 106, Marrubium cinereum 200, Antirrhinum, triornithophorum 377, Scrophularia frutescens 

 377> Hesferis lacera 193, Passiflora hirsuta 176, Hieracium Pyrenaicum 184, Serratula nudicaitlis 

 190, Aster dumosus 95, A. Novae Angliae 98, A. undulatus 96, Solidago flexicaulis 244, S. minuta 

 245, .J. rigida 243, Coreopsis alba 124, Centaurea napifolia 189, C. Tingitana 163, Cucumis Afri- 

 canus 134, Eryngium foetidum pi. 237, Asclepias purpurascens 33. — He died "in 1695," and his 

 Parad. was published by Win. Sherard "in 1705." 



Rosa cmnamontea of the Atlas mountains. Its bark brown-bay or chestnut colour, and hence 

 perhaps the name (Pers.). Termed " r. majalis " by Hermann diss, de rosa p. 8, — described also by 

 Reynier in act. laus. i 68, Linnasus, Ehrhart, Retz. scand., and fl. Dan. pi. 868 and 1214: according 

 to Watson cyb. i. 359, not really naturalized in Britain (A. Dec): perhaps exotic also in Switzerland 

 and other parts of Europe. In its wild state, observed by Desfontaines i. 400 on the Atlas moun- 

 tains (Pers.). 



"Dec. 28th" (Nicol.), death of queen Mary, leaving her husband William III. sole ruler of 

 United Britain. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), after his Plant, vern. "in 1688," Rudolph Jacob Camerarius publishing 

 his Epist. de sexu plant. — He published other papers "until 1721, in which year" he died. His 

 Opuscul. botan. were collected and republished "in 1797." 



" 1695 A. D." (art de verif.), Achmed II. succeeded by Mustafa II., twenty-third Turkish sultan. 



" In this year " (Linn. fl. lapp. praef.), Olaus Rudbeck the younger visiting Lapland, meeting with f 

 Andromeda hypnoides 97, Tussilago frigida, Carex atrata elys. i. pi. 23. 



* Tribulus cistoides of the West Indies. Decumbent and belonging to a Desert tribe, the Zygo- 

 phyllaceae : transported to Europe, described by Hermann parad. 236 — (Spreng.), and Plukenet aim. 

 pi. 67 (Pers.). Westward, was observed by Jacquin, and Maycock, in the West Indies, and is known 

 to grow from " Key West " at the point of Florida (Chapm.) to Curacao (A Dec). Farther West, 

 was carried by ocean-currents, or possibly by Polynesians, to Maiden Island in the Pacific (J. D. 

 Hook.): and to the Hawaiian Islands, observed there by Lay and Collie, by myself in a few Desert 

 spots, but chiefly in the Desert outskirts of Honolulu. 



Capraria biflora of Tropical America. Transported to Europe, is described by Hermann parad. 

 no — (Linn. sp.). Observed in the West Indies by Jacquin amer. pi. 115, and Browne, near dwellings 

 and employed as a substitute for tea (A. Dec); known to grow also at the Southern extreme of Flor- 

 ida (Torr., and Chapm.), and in Mexico, Peru (R. and Pav.), and Brazil (Benth.). By European 

 colonists, was carried to Equatorial Africa, observed at Cape coast in Guinea (fl. Nigr.). 



Passiflora foetida of Tropical America. Known to grow wild from Dominica to Cuacao and 

 Brazil (Pers., Gardn., and A. Dec). Transported to Europe, is described by Hermann parad. 173 — 

 (Spreng.), Plukenet aim. pi. 104, and Cavanilles x. pi. 289. Eastward, was introduced by Moon " in 

 1824" into Ceylon, where it was found by Gardner (bot. mag. for 1848) a very frequent weed : by 

 European colonists also, was carried to Bombay, observed by Graham "in gardens, not common;" 

 and to Burmah (Mason). 



Amaryllis belladonna of Tropical America. Received from the West Indies and termed " lilium 

 bella donna" by Hermann parad. pi. 194 ; — described also by Seba i. pi. 17, and Linnaeus; and 

 observed by myself, naturalized throughout Madeira, even in wild woodland situations. By European 

 colonists also, recently introduced into Hindustan (Graham). Said to grow wild on Barbadoes and 

 other West India Islands, and in Surinam (Pers.). 



+ Lychnis alpina of the Arctic region and alpine summits farther South. Observed by O. Rud- 

 beck iun. 98 in Lapland; — by Fries, in Finland, Sweden, and Norway; and known to grow as far 

 as the mountains of Scotland and Wales (fl. Dan. pi. 65), also on the Pyrenees (A. Dec.) and Swiss 

 Alps (Hall. i. pi. 7), on the Northern portion of the Ural mountains as well as around Lake Baikal 

 and in Daouria (Ledeb. i. 329). Westward, was observed by Hooker on Iceland, and received from 

 Labrador ; is known to grow in Greenland and on Melville Island (Wats.). 



Phyl'lodoce coerulea of the Arctic region and mountain-summits farther South. A low yew-leaved 

 shrub observed by O. Rudbeck jun. 97 in Lapland ; —by Gmelin, in Siberia as far as Kamtchatka, 

 and received from the American coast; known to grow also on the Altaian mountains (A. Dec), in 

 one locality in Perth county in Scotland (Bab.), arid near Bagneres de Luchon in the Pyrenees 

 (Munby). Westward, was observed by Crantz in Greenland (Hook.) ; was received by Pursh from 



