IO o6 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



According to a Japanese account written in this year (Klapr. addit. to San-kokf p. 197), people of 

 the two Aino villages of Kousouri and Atskesi on the East side of Yeso voyaging once a year to the 

 island of Rakko sima to procure "rakko " or sea-otter; and the natives being much dreaded, only the 

 strongest and boldest men are selected for the expedition : the distance is unknown, but a person who 

 resided "three" years there, represents Rakko sima (Aleutian Islands ?) as very remote : no native 

 has ever visited Yeso, nor has a Japanese ever visited Rakko sima. 



In this year (Spreng.), Vaillant writing his Bot. Paris, enumerating* Eriophorum gracile pi. 

 17. 2, Aim aquatica 17. 7, Ac^ihps triuiuialis 17. 1, Exaaau pusillum 6. 2, Alsine segetalis 3. 3, 

 Juncus tcnagcia 20. 1, Elatine triandra 2. 1, Silene Gallica 16. 12, Aspidittm rcgium 9. 1, Riccia 

 glauca 19. 1', and R.fluitans 19. 3. — He died "in 1721," and the work with plates by Aubriet was 

 published "in 1727." 



Tillasa 1'aiilantii of the Mediterranean countries. A diminutive annual observed by Vaillant 

 pi 10 in the environs of Paris ; —by Brotero, in Portugal (Steud.) ; by Moris, on Sardinia ; by Gus- 

 sone, on Sicily and Lampeduza; and received by A. Richard from the margin of a mountain-pool near 

 Adowa in Abyssinia (A. Dec). 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Herm. Boerhaave publishing his Second Index Hort. Lugd., enumer- 

 ating Aulax pinifolia ii. p. 123, Lcucadcndron argenteum ii. 195, L. Levisanus ii. 202, L. squarrosum 

 ii. 197 ; Protea eyuarmdcs, speciosa, Melaleuca, Icpidocarpon, longifolia, mellifera, scolymus, acaulis, 

 longiflora, and rcpcns ii. 183-99 > Lcucospcrmitm conocarpum ii. 196, L. hypophy Hum ii. 198, Mimetes 

 hirta ii 194, J/, citcullata ii. 206, M. Hartogii ii. 205, Gasteria carinata ii. 131, Apicra arachnoides 

 ii. 131, Bumelia Ivcioidcs ii. 263 (Linn. sp. pi.), "phaseolus americanus supra et infra terram fructus 

 gerens " ii. 28 Amphicarpaa monoica. — He died "in 1738." 



"In this year" (Spreng.), after his Compend. "in 171S," Pontedera publishing his Anthologia. — 

 He died "in 1758." 



" 1721 A. D." (Pauth. 447), arrival at Pekin of another legate from the pope. He was received 

 by Khang-hi in a friendly manner, and assured that there was " union among the missionaries." But 

 a decree' was issued, Prohibiting Europeans, "since they could not understand the language," from 

 preaching their religion in China. 



"The same year" (Hutch., coll. hist., and Holmes), the smallpox making havoc in Boston and 

 the neighbourhood, by advice from Rev. Cotton Mather, inoculation was introduced by Dr. Zabdiel 

 Boylston ; who had the courage to begin with his own family, and meeting with success, continued 

 the practice amid violent opposition. About "three hundred" persons were inoculated, but of these 

 "it is impossible to determine the number which died." 



At this time (biogr. univers.), A. G. Barcia writing. — He brought his work down "to 1722." 



" In this year" (Spreng.), after residing for eighteen years as consul at Smyrna, William Sherard 

 returning to England. 



" In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), Buxbaum publishing his Enum. plant. Hal. 



Clienopodiiim urbicum of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Described by Buxbaum 

 enum. — (Spreng.) ; known to grow in waste places in France and middle Europe as far as Denmark 

 (flor. Dan. pi. 114S, Engl. bot. pi. 717, Lam. fl fr., and Pers.). Eastward, was observe! by Sibthorp, 

 and Chaubard, in cultivated ground in Southern Greece and around Constantinople. By European 

 colonists, was carried to Northeast America, where it was observed by Muhlenberg (Moq.), and 

 according to A. Gray is "not rare eastward, naturalized." 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Rzaczynski publishing his Hist. nat. Polon Lithuan. 



" 1722, Dec. 20th" (Chinese chron. table, and Pauth. 438), death of Khang-hi, "three hundred 

 and first emperor from the year 'kia-tse' of Hoang-ti " (according to his own reckoning in his will). 

 He was succeeded by his "fourth son" Young-tching, of the same Twenty-fourth dynasty. 



* Erythraea raniosissima of Western Europe. Observed by Vaillant pi. 6 around Paris, — by 

 Schmidt i. n. 131 in Bohemia (Pers.), by Villars in Dauphiny, and by Pollini near Verona (Steud.) ; 

 termed " e. palustris " by Schrader, " gentiana palustris " by Lamarck, " chironia pulchella " by Smith 

 and Deslongchamps, and " hippocentaurea pulchella" by Schultes (Steud.). Westward, was observed 

 by Pursh on the seashore of New Jersey and termed " exacum pulchellum;" but is regarded by 

 A. Gray as "naturalized" only, occurring in "wet or shady places, Long Island to E. Virginia, 

 scarce." 



Sagina Linntxi of Subarctic climates. Termed "alsine tenuifolia pedunc. fl. longiss." by Vail- 

 lant pan's. 8, — " spergula saginoides " by Linnaeus ; observed also by Sauvages montp. 142 in France ; 

 and known to grow from Spitzbergen and Lapland to the mountains of Switzerland (Wats.), also in 

 Siberia (Gmelin), and on Caucasus and the Altaian mountains (Ledeb.). Westward, was observed by 

 Hooker on Iceland, and received from Greenland ; by Parry, in Arctic America ; by Menzies, in North- 

 west America; by Chamisso, at Escholtz Bay as well as on Unalashka, and St. Paul's Island. 



