O.F ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1015 



" 1736 A. D. = 1st year of Kien-loung" or Khian-loung, "of the Tai-thsing" or Twenty-fourth 

 dynasty (Chinese chron. table, and Pauth.). 



"The same year" (Spreng.), visit of Maupertuis to the Arctic Circle. And of Bouguer and 

 Condamine to the plateau of Quito, to measure a degree of Latitude under the Equator — (Humb. 

 cosm. v.). 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Joh. Georg Siegesbek -publishing at Riga his Primit. flor. petropol. ; 

 — "in 1737," his Epicris. in Linnaei syst. plant. 



Hypericum Aegyptiacum of the East Mediterranean countries. Discovered in this year by 

 Granger in Syria or Cyprus — (Del.) ; subsequently observed by Guerin on maritime rocks of the 

 Peloponnesus. From transported specimens described by Linnaeus, but notwithstanding the name 

 has not been observed in Egypt. 



"1737 A. D." (Smith 427, and Holmes), earthquake in New Jersey. Severe enough to cause 

 "bricks to fall from the chimnies," and excite "great consternation : " yet doing "little actual injury." 



" In this year" (Pritzel), John Brickell publishing his Natural history of North Carolina. 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith), Elizabeth Blackwell publishing her Herbal. 



" In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), after his Fund. bot. "in 1736," Linnaeus publishing his Crit. 

 bot., in which an improved nomenclature, adding a generic to the specific name, is proposed: an 

 arrangement in structural groups greatly facilitating inquiry into the Order of Nature. 



"In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), Linnaeus publishing his Hort. Cliffort., enumerating* 

 Bauhinia divaricata 15, Heliocarpus Americanits 16, Browallia elata 17, Gloxinia tnaculata 18, 

 Amorpha frnticosa 19, Dalea Cliffortiana 22, Kiggelaria Africana 29, and Cliffortia ternata 32 

 (Spreng.) ; Monarda didyma 495, Diodia Virginica 493, Burmannia biflora 128, Wistaria frutescens 

 361, Arum (Ptlttind.ro) Virginicum 434. 



" 1738 A. D." (Hewet ii. 67, and Holmes), among the Negroes in South Carolina, amounting to 

 "forty thousand," an insurrection excited by Spaniards of St. Augustine ; who promised an asylum 

 from slavery in Florida. A party commenced marching Southwest, committing outrages on the way, 

 but through want of military skill, were intercepted and defeated. 



In Jamaica, escaped Negroes having intrenched themselves in the mountains, a treaty was made 

 by governor Trelawney : Allowing them "fifteen hundred acres of land," with "liberty to hunt" 

 near the settlements ; on condition, that they should obey the governor's orders, assist in defending 

 the island, and deliver up all fugitive Negroes. 



"Nov. 7th" (Blair), signing of the treaty of Vienna: Ceding Lorraine to France, Tuscany to 

 the Lorraine family, and confirming Naples to Don Carlos. 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), publication of the plants collected by Thomas Shaw 

 in Barbary and the Levant, including Telephium oppositifolium n. 572, Sedum coeruleum 550, Fago- 

 nia Arabica 229, Ranunculus spicatus 149, Psychine stylosa 91, Biscictella montana 583, Turritis 

 pubescens 228, Cleome Arabica 557, Erodium ,gu ttatum 260, Prenanthes sarmentosa 146, and Centau- 

 rea acaulis 342. 



"In this year" (Linn. sp. p!., and Winckl.), after his Thesaur. Ceilan. "in 1737" loan Burmann 

 publishing the plants Hartog caused to be collected in Austral Africa, under the title of Rar. Afr., 

 enumerating Sebaea albens, pi. 74. f. 4, Exacum hyssopifoliuni 74. 3, Struthiola longiflora 47. 1, S. 

 anpustifolia 47. 3, Lobelia lutea 39. I, L. hirsuta 40. 2, Cyphia bulbosa 38. 1, Rhamnus prinoides 88 ; 

 Phylica stipularis, buxifo/ia, and capitata 43. 2 to 44. 3 ; Plectronia ventosa 94 ; Diosma uniflora, 

 and pulchella 46. 2-3; Gomphocarpus arbor escens 13, Stapelia mamillaris n, Rhus rosmarinifolia 



54 near Fort Cumberland ; by myself, from 45 to 40 along the Atlantic ; by Michaux, in Connecticut 

 and New York ; by Schweinitz, at 36° in Upper Carolina ; by Short, in Kentucky; by Beck, on the 

 Mississippi near St. Louis; by Nuttall, on the Arkansas; by E. James, as far as its sources within 

 the Rocky Mountains. 



* Lobelia inflata of Northeast America. Annual with small blue flowers, and called Indian 

 tobacco ; transported to Europe, described by Linnaeus hort. cliff. 500 — Westward, was observed in 

 Virginia by Clayton (Gron. 134) ; in New England by Cutler, who first brought its medicinal proper- 

 ties into notice, and named it emetic-weed (acad. Amer. i., and Tuckerm. arch. Am. iv. 191) ; by 

 Pursh from Canada to Carolina ; by myself, from 45° to 40 along the Atlantic, in sunny situations, 

 and multiplying in clearings and fallow ground ; by Schweinitz, at 36° in Upper Carolina ; by Elliot, 

 in the upper country of Carolina and Georgia ; by Short, near Lexington in Kentucky. Is enumerated 

 by Lindley as "an acrid narcotic, and most powerful emetic." 



