OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1031 



Juncus pygmaus of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. A rush described by Thunberg 

 (Steud.) : observed by Thuillier in wet places in the environs of Paris (Pers.) ; by D'Urville in beds 

 of torrents on the island of Milo (Chaub.). 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Peter Jos. Buc'hoz publishing his Traite" hist, plant. Lorraine, also 

 his Diet, plant, de la France. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Joh. Andr. Murray publishing his Prodrom. stirp. gottingens. ; * and 

 about this time (comm. goet. vii), describing Euphorbia cyathophora pi. I. 



" 1771, March " (trav. iii. 6), Pallas, proposing to visit East Siberia, joined by Georgi and Falk at 

 Tcheliabinsk. Leaving " April 16th," he proceeded Eastward, and " May 16th " reached Omsk on the 

 Irtich. Leaving on the " 22d," meeting with Sisymbrium salsuginosum, Convolvulus spinosus, Astra- 

 galus ammodytes, Thlaspi ceratocarpum, Allium coeruleum, and "June 27th'' reached the Schoulba 

 at the commencement of the Altaian mountains. Leaving the vicinity "July 17th," he soon reached 

 a tributary of the Obi and continued Eastward, meeting with Silene Altaica, Bcrberis Siberica, Carda- 

 mine nivalis from the mountain-summits, reached Tomsk "Sept. 9th," and on the "30th" Iourbin- 

 skaia or Kemson on the Yenisei. Near Abakansk were inscriptions, older apparently than the Conquest 

 of this portion of Siberia and mostly Mongol, two only being in the Tartar language. " Oct. loth " 

 he reached Krasnoyarsk on the Yenesei, where he passed the winter. 



"March 8th" (Pall. trav. iv. 16), under instructions from Pallas, Soujef leaving Tobolsk on the 

 frozen Irtich on his way to the Arctic Ocean. After " two hundred and sixty verstes " at DemianskoT- 

 iam the Tartar villages ceased, and the Russian villages were soon intermingled with those of the 

 Ostiaks, professed Christians as far as Berezof, " five degrees North of Tobolsk " and where dog- 

 sledges were in use as well as reindeer. Leaving "June nth " in a large canoe, on the " 14th " he 

 arrived at Obdorskoi, "in 67°" and the last place held by the Russians. Leaving by canoe "July 1st," 

 he landed on the " 3d " and proceeded North with reindeer, meeting with Sedum quadrifidum, Acctosa 

 acetosella, Andromeda (Cassiope) hypnoides, Chrysosplenium alternifo.'ium, Sisymbrium sophia, Arte- 

 misia borealis, and Lycopodiuin complanatum • on the " 14th " he saw the Arctic Ocean, and journey- 

 ing Westward, reached the Gulf on the " 25th ; " on the " 28th," he commenced his return. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Vandelli residing at Rio Janeiro publishing a few Brazilian plants. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Duroi publishing his Harbk., enumerating of North American plants, 

 Quercus palustris pin oak (Brendel in Am. Nat. for 1870), Acer spicatum. 



"In this year" (title-page), Forster publishing his Catalogue of N. Amer. plants, enumerating 

 Elatine Americana, Parietaria debilis (Chapm.). 



"In this year" (append. Sibth., and Spreng.), Linnseus publishing his Second Mantissa, 

 enumerating Muhlenbergia Mexicana 31, Rhynchospora fusca (Steud.), Ipomoea dissecta (Steud.), 

 Saxiffaga Siberica (Pers.) : f — afterwards turned his attention to Surinam plants ; and died "Jan. 

 10th, 1778." 



"In this year" (biblioth. Amer. 165, and Holmes), publication of "Considerations on the expe- 

 diency of admitting representatives from the American colonies into the British house of Commons." 



Avcna stri^osa of the Tauro-Caspian countries. A grass in this year first observed in Germany 

 (Schreb. fl. lips.), — "in 1779" by Retz in Sweden, and "in the same year " by Withering in Britain ; 

 has since become a weed in cultivated ground from Russia to Portugal (Brot., and A. Dec.) : was 

 observed by C. A. Meyer to all appearance wild in meads near the Caspian, between Sallian and 

 Lenkoran. 



"The same year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), voyage of Sonnerat from the Mauritius Islands to the 

 Seychelles and Malayan Archipelago. — He published his Voy. "in 1776," and died "in 1781." 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Oeder succeeded by O. F. Muller as editor of the Flor. Dan. who pub- 

 lished the fourth volume, — "in 1782" (Winckl.), the fifth volume, and died "in 1784." 



Atlantic, and probably Westward : observed by Baldwin on Flores, Bermuda, also at Bahia, and from 

 Rio Janeiro to the mouth of the La Plata; by Chapman, "along the coast, Florida to South Carolina;" 

 by Le Conte, in Georgia (Collins) ; by Walter, and Elliot, near salt water as far as the Santee. 



* Rume.r conglomeratus of Northern Europe. A dock distinguished by Murray; — termed 

 " r. nemolapathum " by Linnasus jun., " r. divaricatus " by Thuillier, " r. paludosus " by Aiton (Steud.); 

 known to tow in moist shaded situations and along streams in middle Europe (Pers ) : observed by 

 Pollich, Moench, Roth, and Sprengel, in Germany ; by Thuillier, near Paris. By European colonists 

 was carried to Northeast America, occurring according to A. Gray in "moist places, sparingly intro- 

 duced, naturalized." 



f Euxolus deflexus of ... . Having the aspect of E viridis, but the stems prostrate, and dis- 

 tinguished by Linnaeus — (Willd. pi. 10. f. 20, Pers., and Steud.). By European colonists carried to 

 Northeast America, occurring in "waste places, Albany, New York, etc." (Raf., and A. Gray). 



