1002 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"In this year" (append. Sibth., and Winckler), Scheuchzer publishing his Prodrom. agrosto- 

 graph. Helvet.* 



"The same year" (Spreng.), arrival in Southern Arabia of -Mervellius and Lalande. — They 

 remained until " 1713." 



" 1709, July 24th " (Forster voy. 44.4, and Holmes), arrival in California of Captain Trondad, a 

 Frenchman, in the first ship that crossed the Pacific in a high Northern latitude. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), after visiting the East "in 1700" and the West Indies "in 1703," 

 Feuille'e from Brazil sailing around Cape Horn to Chili and Lima, meeting with Dry mis Winteri i. pi. 

 6. f. 1, Fuchsia macrostema iii. pi. 47, Gratiola Peruviana ii. 17, Sarmienta repens ii. 34, Calceola- 

 ria piunata ii. 7, C. salicifolia ii. 7. 1, Acacrni argentea ii 41. I, Gncvina avellana iii. 34, Buddleia 

 globosa iii. 38, Cynoglossum Limense iii. 49, Lobelia tupa iii. 29, A'icoliana patiiculata iii. 10, Solatium 

 chcnopodioides iii. 24, *S\ quercifolium iii. 15, S. muricatum iii. 26, Ly coper sicu in Peruvianutu i. 25. t, 

 IVitlieriiigia montana i. 46, Anagallis alternifolia i. 26. 3, Viola capillaris iii. 28. Nertera depressa 

 i. 44, Cestrum auriculatnm i. 20. 2, Hydrocotyle citriodora i. 1. 2, Oenothera tenuifolia i. 33. 2, Conan- 

 thera bifolia i. 3. 1, Herreria slellata iii. 7, Phalangium coeruleum iii. S, P. eccremorrhizum i. 21. 1, 

 Amaryllis tubiflora i. 20. 1, A. Chilcnsis i. 21. 3, A . flammea i. 20. 3, A. bicolor i. 21. 2, Alstroemeria 

 pelegrina iii. 5, A. salsilla iii. 6, Pitcairnia coarttata i. 39. 2, Tropaeolum peregrinum iii. 42, Clilora 

 sesiilis iii. 14. 2, Cassia slipulacea i. 42, Jussieua Peruviana iii 9, Ox-alts rosea iii. 23, 0. conorhiza 

 iii. 24, 0. megalorliiza iii. 25, Euphorbia laiirifolia iii. 2, E. portulaccoides iii. 3, Salpi^lossis sinuata 

 iii. 21, Eugenia buxifolia i. 31. 2, Dracocephalum chatnaedryoides i. 1, Bignonia radiata iii. 22, Loasa 

 acantliifolia iii. 43, Xuaresia biflora iii. 48, Verbena chamaedrifolia i. 25. 3, Cristaria betonicaefolia 

 i. 27. I, Ferraria ixioides i. 4. I, Passiftora liliaefolia iii. 12, z . punctata iii. II, Polygala thesioides 

 iii. 13, Psoralea glanditlosa i. 3. 2, Cephalopliora glauca i. 45. 2, Flaveria eupa/orioides iii. 14. 2, v5«c- 

 charis ivaefolia iii. 37, Xcottia diuretica iii. 17, Cymbidium virescens iii. 19, C. luteum iii. 20, /»4>yj 

 ingoidcs i. 19, and Asolla Magellanica i. 35 f — He returned to Marseilles "in 171 1," published his 

 Obs. cotes or. Am. Merid. "in 1714-25," visiting the Canary Islands "in 1724," and died "in 1732." 



* Agrostis alpina of Subarctic climates and mountain-summits farther South. A grass 

 described by Scheuchzer prodr. pi. 4, — and Leysser 34, and known to grow on the mountains of 

 Saxony and Switzerland (Pers.) : observed by Uecandolle on the Swiss Alps; by Allioni 2161 on 

 rocks in Piedmont and termed "a. rupestris " (Steud.). Westward, was received by Collins from 

 Labrador ; observed by myself on the summits of the White mountains of New England ; grows 

 on "mountain-tops, Maine to New York" (A. Gray), and on "high mountains of North Carolina" 

 (Chapm.). 



f Galinsoga parviflora of the Andes from Mexico to Chili. Described by Feuille'e iii. pi. 32 — 

 (Spreng.); noted in Peru for its vulnerary and antiscorbutic properties; observed there by Ruiz and 

 Pavon (Pers.) ; known to grow also in Chili, New Granada, and Mexico (A. Dec). As transported 

 to Europe, described by Cavanilles iii. pi. 2S2 ; cultivated in a garden in Germany in " 1800" (Roth 

 catal.), had escaped from cultivation near Mernel and Osterode in " 1807," spreading into Courland 

 and Lithuania and various parts of Germany as far as the Rhine (Reichenb., and Doll): also by Euro- 

 pean colonists, was carried to Northeast America, where it made its appearance in " waste places, 

 Cambridge, Mass., New York, and Phil ulelphia " (A. Gray) prior at least to 1S59. 



Madia sativa of California? An herb called by the Chilians " madi," and oil procured from its 

 seeds (Molin.): observed by Feuillee in Chili ; — by Molina, two species, one of them cultivated and 

 the other wild; by myself, two varieties or possibly species frequent and seemingly wild in the envi- 

 rons of Valparaiso and Santiago. 



Madia mellosa of . . . —A third species, its leaves viscous and amplexicaul, observed by 

 Molina in Chili. 



Mimulus luteus of Northwest America. Observed by Feuille'e ii. pi. 34 in Peru — (Pers.): 

 known to occur throughout Chili (Benth ), and observed by myself on the river-bank of the Maipu 

 above Santiago. In the Northern Hemisphere, was received by Pallas from Northwest America; 

 was observed by Chamisso on Unalascha ; and by Lewis and Clarke, on the North branch of the 

 Columbia (Pursh). Transported to our Atlantic States, was cultivated as a garden-flower; and in 

 18 12 was carried to Europe, where it has become naturalized in various localities from Britain to 

 middle Europe (Newman, Godron, and A. Dec ). 



Nicandraphysalodes of Peru. An annual, two to three feet high with solitary pale blue flowers, 

 observed by Feuille'e iii. pi. 16 in Peru — (Spreng.); by Ruiz and Pavon ii. pi. 1S6, in waste places 

 and cultivated ground around Lima (Pers.); by Jacquin obs. iv. pi. 98, in the West Indies ; by Chap- 

 man, in "waste and cultivated ground, introduced " in our Southern States; by myself as far as 43 in 

 New England, a weed possibly brought by the natives. Transported to Europe, is described by 



