OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1043 



" 1788 A. D." (Holmes), at Cairo in Egypt, death of the American traveller Ledyard 



" In this year " (Winckl.), Timm publishing his Flor. megapol. prodr* 



"In this year" (Pers. i. 501), Swartz publishing descriptions of Scandinavian plants in N act 

 holm. ; — " in 1791," his Obs. botan. 



"In this year" (Pursh), L'Heritier publishing his Sert. anglicumf and monogr. Cornus, enumer- 

 ating Lornus arcinata pi. 3, Abrouia umbellata pi. — . 



"In this year" (Pursh), . . . Gmelin publishing his edition of the Syst. Nat., enumerating 

 Mitreola peliolata 443 : — completed "in 1793." 



"In this year" (Durand), Michaux with his son journeying in Florida, meeting with Be/aria 

 racemosa (Pers., and Baldw. 336), Styrax pulverulentum, Forestiera porulosa, Pinguicula fiumila, 

 Vagmaria Richardi, Paspalum Floridanum, Tripsacum cylindricum, Blechnum serrulatum, Hedyotis 

 am>ustifolia, Ceanothus microphyllus, Cyrilla Antillana, Xanthoxylum tricarpum, Phalangium 

 croceum, Sabal serrulata, Schanocaulon gracile, Vaccinium nitidum, Sarracenia psittacina. Hibiscus 

 grandifiorus, Petalostemum carneum, Aeschynomene viscidula, Leptopoda fimbriata, Lepachys 

 pinnata. 



" In this year" (append. Sibth.), Roth publishing his Tent. Flor. Germ. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Pet. Rem. Willemet, accompanying an embassy to Tippoo Saib, visit- 

 ing Mauritius Island.— He died at Seringapatan "in 1790," and his Herb, maurit. was published 

 "in 1796." 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Winckl.), Gartner publishing his Fruct. plant.,! — He died 

 "in 1791," and the publication was completed "in the same year." 



" 1789 A. D." (Holmes), the necessity of an efficient government being generally felt and 

 acknowledged, the constitution, notwithstanding diversities of opinion, was acceded (o by eleven 

 States : and on " March 3d," delegates assembled at New York opened the votes for president, and 

 found Washington unanimously elected. " April 30th," he was inaugurated in that city, and the new 

 government organized : and Alex. Hamilton appointed first secretary of treasury. " May 29th," 

 Rhode Island "adopted the federal constitution, and was annexed to the Union." 



" May 5th" (Maunder), assembling by Louis XVI. of France of the states-general, "consisting 

 of nobles, clergy, and others." Discovering the situation of the country and feeling their power, the 

 members bound themselves by oath, not "to separate until the constitution of the kingdom, and the 

 regeneration of public order, were established and fixed on a solid basis." July " 12th," tumult at 

 Paris, in consequence of the removal of Necker, and interference of the military with some demon- 

 strations of disapprobation : "July 14th," the Bastile attacked and captured by the populace. " Aug. 1st," 

 the new constitution before the National Assembly : after being discussed and adopted, it was accepted 

 by the king. 



"The same year" (art de verif.), Abd-el-Hamid succeeded by Selim III., twenty-ninth Turkish 

 sultan. Coins issued at Cairo by Selim III. are figured in Marcel p 249. 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith), Aiton publishing his Hort. Kewensis, enumerating Andromeda 

 {Leucothoe) axillaris, Mertensia paniculala i. 181, Corallorhiza innata, Allium tricocatm, Viola 

 striata, Agrimonia parviflora, Potentilla tridentata, Mimulus alatusu. 361, A'ardos?nia palmata iii. 

 pi. 11 ; Solidago ssrotina, gigantea, nemoralis, arguta, petiolaris, stricta, mul iradiata iii. p. 211—3 i 

 Aster paludosus\\\. p. 201, A. salicifolius, spectabilis, aestivus, corymbosus, radula ; Belula excelsa, 

 Finns Banksiana, P. serotina, Colhnsonia scabriuscula i. 47, Asclepias parvijlora i. 307, Adlumia 

 cirr/iota iii. 1, Epidendrum conopseum (Steud.). 



" In this year" (append. Sibth., and Winckl.), A. L. Jussieu publishing his Gen. plant. 



" In this year " (Winckl.), Saint-Amans publishing his Voyage dans les Pyrenees. 



* Calama^rostis stricta of Subarctic climates. A grass observed by Timm. in Roth n. beytr. i. 

 118 near Mecklenburg in Germany — (Pers.) ; known to grow from Lapland and Russia to Switzer- 

 land. And Westward, in Greenland, and in British and Russian America (Wats.) ; observed by 

 myself on the alpine summits of the White mountains, having a contracted spiciform panicle and 

 long acuminate glumes (agreeing entirely with a specimen from the mountains of Europe marked 

 " C. epigeios "). 



f Zephvranthes tubispatha of Austral America. Transported to Europe is described by 

 L'Heritier sert. angl 9. — By European colonists also, carried to Hindustan ; and " from Dr. Carey's 

 garden at Serampore," introduced by Mason v. 431 prior to 185 1 into the gardens of Burmah. Known 

 to grow wild in Buenos Ayres (Pers.). 



% Eucalyptus gummifera of Australia. Described by Gasrtner — (Steud.), and J. E. Smith soc. 

 linn. 284; observed in Australia by White trav. pi. (Pers.). By European colonists, carried to 

 Hindustan, and according to Drury growing at Ootacamund. 



