OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1029 



"In this year" (append. Sibth., and Spreng.), Miller publishing the Eighth edition of his Gar- 

 dener s dictionary, enumerating Berberis Canadensis. — He died "in 1771." 



" In this year " (Spreng.), after his Geran. in " 1759," N. L. Burmann publishing his Flor. Indica, 

 enumerating plants collected by Outgaerden, Pryon, Lor. Garcin., and others, as Coiula minima, 

 Inuyacupressoides. — He published also Prodr. flor. Capens. ; and died in " 1793." 



" In this year " (Winckler), James Bruce visiting Abyssinia, — where he remained " until 1772." 



'■ 1769, Feb. 9th " (Gordon, and Holmes), in an address to the king by both houses of Parlia- 

 ment, a proposal to bring persons accused of treason into Britain for trial. Massachusetts having 

 now no Assembly; resolves by the Virginia Legislature "May 16th," That "it is lawful to procure 

 the concurrence" of other colonies in " praying the royal interposition in favour " of violated rights : 

 and that all trials for crime committed in a colony, "ought to be in and before his majesty's courts 

 within said colony." On the following day, the Virginia Assembly was dissolved by Governor Bote- 

 tourt. " In October," the North Carolina Legislature adopting similar resolutions, was dissolved by 

 Governor Tryon. A Non-importation agreement soon afterwards became general. 



Previous perhaps to his voyage with Cook, Solander describing Vaccinium vacillans, Andromeda 

 speciosa. 



" The same year " (Spreng., and D'avezac in rec. voy. et mem. iv.), Cook on his First voyage in 

 company with Banks and Solander, traversing the Pacific Ocean discovered Anaa or Chain coral- 

 island, and farther West the two high islands of Tetouroa and Mauroua. — He reached New Zealand 

 " in 1770," and after visiting Australia and New Guinea arrived home " in 1771." 



" In this year " (Spreng., and Winckler), Erich Laxmann, residing at Kolywan, publishing his 

 letter on Siberia. — He died " in 1796." 



" April 15th " (trav. i. 224), Pallas at Samara on the Volga in 53 , the ice entirely gone, and the 

 country covered with flowers, including Ornithogalum minimum, Fritillaria Pyrenaica, Tulipa syl- 

 vestris, Iris pumila, Valeriana bulbosa, Pedicularis comosa, Astragalus Uralensis, A. tragacan- 

 thoides, Viola odorata, and most abundant of all Pulsatilla patens: on the heights were growing 

 Clematis erecta, Salvia uemorosa, S. nutans, Phlomis herba-venti, Dracorephalum thymijlorum, D. 

 Sibericum, Nepeta violacea, Hedysarum onobrychis, Astragalus pilosus, A. grandiflorus, Centaurea 

 Kuthenica, Inula hirta, and most abundant of all Onosma echioides. " May 2d," leaving Samara, 

 Pallas continued along the Volga, meeting with Agropyrum prostratum, Cheirant/ius taraxacifolius, 

 and on "the 30th " returned to Samara. "June 16th," he proceeded Eastward up the Samara river, 

 meeting with "planta salsa ambigui generis "(....), Erysimum cornutum, and "July 1st" reached 

 Orenbourg in " 51 46' " on the Yaik. " Aug. 23d," Pallas at Gourief on the Yaik near the Caspian, 

 meeting with in the environs Hesperis Tartarica, Polycnemum monandrum, P. oppositifolium, Sali- 

 cornia strobilacea, Salsola arbuscula, Serratula Caspica, Lycoperdon herculeum a foot high around 

 the Inderskoi salt lake. Leaving Gourief "on the 31st," he reached Jai'tzkoi on the Yaik "Sept. 

 17th," Sakmarskoi on the Orenbourg route " on the 28th," and continued through the Baschkir coun- 

 try to Oufa "Oct. 2d." 



"July 24th" (append. Pall. v. 484), Lepechin arriving at Zarizyn on the Lower Volga. — He 

 published the first volume of his travels in Russia "in 1774," and the third "in 1783" (Spreng., and 

 Winckl.). 



" The same year" (Humb. iii. 8), colonization of North California by the Spanish ; who estab- 

 lished missions at Monterey and San Francisco.* 



" In this year' (J. E. Smith, Spreng., and Winckl.), after his Icon, "in 1766," Schreber publish- 

 ing the First volume of his Gram., — his Flor. Lips, "in 177:," Verticil, unilab. "in 1774." 



Carex intermedia of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Described by Schreber and 

 termed " c. disticha" — (Pers.) ; known to grow in meads and marshes from Sweden and Russia to 

 the Mediterranean (Engl. bot. pi. 2040, Thuill, Pers., and Wats.) ; observed by Decandolle in France; 

 by Sibthorp, and Chaubard, frequent in the Peloponnesus. 



Carex pracox of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. A low vernal sedge described by 

 Schreber, — and known to grow in open woods from Sweden and Russia throughout middle Europe 

 (Engl. bot. pi. 1099, Jacq. aust. pi. 446, Pers., and Wats.) : observed by Sibthorp on the mountains 

 around Athens. By European colonists, was carried to Northeast America, observed by myself natu- 

 ralized on hills around Salem, Mass., and flowering before the development of leaves on the over- 

 hanging trees ; by Schweinitz, near Bethlehem, Penns. 



* Vitis Californica of North California. A wild vine, yielding grapes "assez grandes, mais tres 

 aigres," was found by the first Spanish colonists — (Humb. iii. 8): doubtless the species observed by 

 myself, festooning trees along the Sacramento, the fruit rather small, pleasant to the taste, but leaving 

 behind an unusual sense of tartness. 



