OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. IOOI 



I urifraga 350. 10; Lycopodium curvatum, cernuum, bryopteris, and canaliatlatum 47 910453. 8 

 triocauhn decangulare amalth. pi. 409. f. 5, Ribes oxyacanthoides amalth. 212. - He died " in 1706 " 



_ t-hkoltzia cristata of the mountains of Siberia and Central Asia as far as Hindustan and Lake 

 h P 11 A .^ bla ' e P lant described by Plukenet amalth. 430. I *-(Spreng.); termed "mentha patrina" 

 Dy rallas (bteud.), and apparently from the commencement of the present cenrurv occurring in Rus- 

 sia, mentioned by Hoeft as " spontaneous," by Ledebour as " subspontaneous " '(A. Dec.) : of late 

 years has extended itself into cultivated land in Germany (Koch) and Sweden (Fries), was already 

 ™ lled „!" Germany "in 1830" (Reich.), and about 1823-8 escaped from gardens in Sweden 

 (Walil.) ; ' in 1850," had extended itself around Angers (Leroy). From "English seeds" was intro- 

 duced into the environs of Bombay (Gibs., and Graham). 



Carex pilulifera of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Described by Plukenet amalth. 

 9t- 8— - (Spreng.), termed " cyperoides alpinum saxatile capillaceo folio caule rotundo triquetro spica 

 seminah mgncante plerumque unica"by Micheli pi. 32 (Linn.), and known to grow from Sweden 

 throughout middle Europe (fl. Dan. pi. 1048, En s I. bot. pi. 885, and Pers.) : observed by Linnaeus as 

 far as Upsal ; by Sibthorp, in the environs of Constantinople. 



" In 1705-6 " (Pers., and Spreng.), Tournefort in Mem. acad. par. distinguishing by well-defined 

 characters several genera of plants, including Diervilla. — He died "Dec. 28th, 1708" (Fonten.). 



"1706 A. D." (Humphreys, and Holmes), in South Carolina, an Act of assembly, establishing 

 religious worship according to the Church of England. The province was divided into ten parishes, 

 in each of which a church was built ; and the clergymen were all supplied by the British Society for 

 propagating the Gospel. 



"July 22d" (Blair), signing of the Union between England and Scotland. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), C. Commelyn publishing his Hort. rar. Amst., enumerating! Chironia 

 baccifera rar. 9, C. frutescens 8, Mahemia pinna ta 7, Crinum erubescens 15 ; Aloe echinata, and 

 ■variegata, Apicra albicans 46-8 ; Zygaphyllum scssilifolium 10, Cotyledon spuria 10, Spielmannia 

 Africana 6. Melianthus comosus 6, Cacalia ficoides 40, Athanasia dentata 41, Senecio ilicifolius 42, 

 Centaurea glastifolia 39; Arctotis acarelis, and calendulacea 35-6, and Momor'dica operculata 22. — 

 Completed "in 1715 ; " he died "in 1731." 



Lamium multifidum of the Uralian plains. From transported specimens described by C. Com- 

 melyn rar. pi. 26 — (Pers.) : observed by Pallas trav. i. 257 wild on the Lower Volga. 



" 1707 A. D." (Marcel p. 221), in Egypt, a change in internal affairs : the authority of the pasha 

 from Constantinople becoming chiefly nominal, giving place to that of the schekh-el-beled, Ismael- 

 Bey. — Who from this time really conducted the administration ; and transmitted the charge to his 

 successors in the office. 



" The same year " (Maunder), death of Aurungzebe. War ensued, for the succession, between 

 his sons ; and Mausum gaining the ascendancy, became emperor of Northern Hindustan under the 

 name of Bahader Shah. 



" 1708, Aug. 29th, about break of day" (Charlev., Hutch., and Holmes), Haverhill on the Merri- 

 mack river surprised by "about two hundred" aboriginals under French officers. The town was 

 plundered and several of the houses burned ; the clergyman, " captain of the town," and "thirty or 

 forty other persons were killed ; and many " were taken prisoners. 



" The same year" (Steinschneid. iii. 30), the peculiar disease of the hair termed "plica Polon- 

 ica," described by Tobias Cohen. 



* Hyptis sicaveolens of Tropical America. Known to grow wild there (Pers., and A. Dec). 

 Transported to Europe is described by Plukenet amalth. 306. 3 — (Spreng.), Aiton, and L'Heritier: by 

 European colonists also, was carried across the Pacific to the Philippines, Moluccas, Hindustan 

 (Benth.), and Java (Zoll.). 



Utricularia minor of Northern Europe and America. Described by Plukenet amalth. pi. 99. 

 f. 9 — (Spreng.) ; observed by Hayne pi. 6 in Germany (Pers.), by Decandolle in France, and known 

 to grow from Sweden to Ireland and Switzerland (Wats., and A. Dec). Westward, growing according 

 to Pursh in New Jersey; and according to A. Gray, from Watertown in " N. New York to Wiscon- 

 sin, and northward." 



\ Quamoclit coccinea of the West Indies and neighbouring portion of North America. A 

 scarlet-flowered Convolvulaceous twiner, transported to Europe, described by C. Commelyn rar. pi. 

 II, — Lfnnaeus, and Jacquin rar. pi. 35: by European colonists also, carried to Java and Bombay 

 (Choisy, and A. Dec.) ; observed at Bombay by Graham "in gardens pretty common," by Roxburgh, 

 in Eastern Hindustan. Westward, is known to grow in the West Indies (Pers.) ; was observed by 

 Nuttall on the Arkansas ; according to A. Gray, is naturalized on "river-banks, etc., Ohio, Virginia, 

 and southward ; " and according to Chapman, occurs in " cultivated ground, in the middle and upper 

 districts" (of Georgia and Carolina), the flowers "sometimes yellowish." 



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