IO46 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



" In this year" (append. Sibth., and Winckl.), Martin Vahl publishing his Symbol, hot* 



Thalia dealbata of Carolina and the Lower Mississippi. Discovered by J. Millington in the 

 "impenetrable swamps of" South Carolina (Roscoe act. linn. viii. 340, and Ph.), and "in this year" 

 according to John Fraser pi. (Pritzel) : observed by Leconte in Southern Georgia; by Baldwin, at 

 the mouth of the Satilla ; by Nuttall, on the Arkansas, as far North as Lat. 35°. Transported to 

 Europe, is termed " Peronia stricta " by Laroch. (Red., Poir., and Steud.) ; was sent by Delile from 

 the Montpelier garden to Egypt, observed by Clot-Bey among other aquatic plants. 



" 1791 A. D." (Holmes), by act of Congress, Vermont, which during the war had assumed a pro- 

 vincial government, admitted into the Union as the fourteenth State. 



" The same year" (Holmes), by the British parliament, the province of Quebec divided into Upper 

 and Lower Canada. 



"April 19th to 2 1st" (hist. coll. ii. p. 20), by Capt. Joseph Ingraham on his way to Northwest 

 America, seven islands discovered in continuation of the Marquesas Northward to within 8° 3' of the 

 Equator. The natives resembled those of the Marquesas, "except one young man, who had his hair 

 stained white at the ends, as is common at the Sandwich Islands." Opye, a Sandwich islander on 

 board, returning a'ter twenty months absence at New York and Boston, was unable to understand the 

 language of the Marquesas. 



"The same year'' (Kobell iv.), galvanism discovered by Galvani. — And shown not long after- 

 wards by Volta to be an electrical phenomenon. 



" In this year" (suppl. Sibth.), publication of the first volume of the Transactions of the Linnasan 

 Society of London. 



As early as this year (Willd. sp. pi. ii. 311), Curtis mag. 352 describing Oenothera purpurea of 

 Northwest America. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), P. K. A. Schousboe Danish consul in Marocco. — He continued until 

 " 1 793-" and commenced publishing his researches "in 1800." 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith), after his Monadelph. diss, "in 1790," Cavanilles publishing his 

 Icon. Plant, enumerating! Madia viscosa iii. pi. 298. — The sixth and concluding volume in " 1801." 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Lamarck publishing his Illustr. gen. plant. ; — completed in nine hun- 

 dred plates "in 1800." 



"In this year " (Willd.), Thadcleus Haenke publishing an account of his excursion to the Riesenge- 

 birge. — His observations in North and South America, the Ladrone or Marian Islands and the Philip- 

 pines, were published by Presl "in 1830-6" (Pritzel). 



"In this year" (Pursh), J. E. Smith publishing his Spicileg. bot., enumerating Hypoxis juncea 

 pi. 16. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), La Billardiere sailing with D'Entrecasteaux in search of La Perouse.J 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith), Salisbury publishing his Icon. Rar,, enumerating Cannaflaccida 

 pi 2 (Willd.), — his Hort. Allerton "in 1796," and Nvmphaeae in Sims ann. bot. ii. 



"1792, April 17th" (art de verif.). Vancouver arriving by way of the Hawaiian Islands in 

 Northwest America, near Cape Mendocino in " N. Lat. 40 19'," and turning Northward Menzies 

 accompanying him and meeting with Mcnzicsia /c/'rugiuca, M . empetriforinis, Mvgiuda uivrsiuites, 

 Arbutus Mcuziesii, A. tonicntosa, I 'actinium obtusum. Saxifraga pcctiuata, '] iarella Mcnzicsii, Mitclla 

 grandijlora, Spiraea capitata, Rubus pedatiii, R. stellatus, Lupiuus Aootkatcjisis ; Ribes laxiflarum, 

 speciosum, Menziesii ; Quercus Ga/rvana (Brendel). 



" In this year" (Jap. mann. 272), Laxmann in a Russian ship at Matsmai, bringing shipwrecked 

 Japanese. He was formally thanked, but informed, That "if the Russians ever again landed" at any 

 port except Nagasaki, " they would be made prisoners." 



"June 1st" (Holmes), Kentucky admitted into the Union as the fifteenth State. The revenues 

 of the United States for this year, estimated at " three million seven hundred thousand dollars : " and 



* Carcx Vahlii of Arctic Europe and the alpine summits of Switzerland. Termed " c. alpina" in 

 fl. Dan. pi. 403 (l'ers.), but distinguished by Schkuhr, and known to grow in Lapland (Pers.) ; also 

 on the alpine portion of Switzerland (A. Dec). 



f Clicuopodiuin la-lidiiu; of Mexico. Known to occur there (Moq.). Transported to Europe, is 

 described by Cavanilles, — Schrader, Lagasca, and Schultes (Steud.) : probably by European colonists, 

 carried to Buenos-Ayres, Austral Africa, and Abyssinia (Moq., and A. Dec). 



% Eucalyptus globulus of Australia. Observed there by La Billardiere. — Introduced into Hin- 

 dustan and at Ootacamund attained nine feet in girth in eighteen years, has spread rapidly on the 

 Neilgherries and other high lands and has "become naturalised" as low down as "three thousand or 

 four thousand feet " (Drur.). By European colonists also was carried to the Mediterranean countries, 

 and has become acclimatized in Algeria, Spain, Corsica, and Southern France. 



