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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"March" (Nouv. Esp.), Humboldt and Bonpland arriving in Mexico, meeting with* Quercus 

 confertifolia, crassifolia, crassipes, depressa, lanceolate, laurina, obtusata, pulchella, repanda, reticu- 

 lata, Xalapensis (Brendel), Lobelia fulgens. 



" In this year" (title-page), after his Fragm. nat. hist. Penns. " in 1799," Benjamin S. Barton 

 publishing his Elements of Botany, 



"In this year" (Ph ), Willdenow publishing his Hort. berolin , enumerating Polygonatutn 

 giganteum 45. 



" In this year" (Pers. ii. p. 542), returning from Lapland, Wahlenberg publishing descriptions 

 of Carices in Act. holm., including Carex salina, auuatilis, tenuijlora, livida. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Ventenat publishing his Hort. malmais., enumerating Parnassia 

 asarifolia, Tilia heterophylla, Tiarclla biternata : — " in 1808 " his Decas gen. nov., and died before 

 the close of the year. 



" In this year" (append Sibth.), publication of the first volume of the Ann. mus. d'hist. nat. 



About this time (Pers. i. p. 88, and Winckl.), Poiteau visiting Hayti :t writing also his monogr. 

 Hypt. (ann. mus. ined. to iv., and Pers. ii. p. 120). 



Hyptis atrorubens of Tropical America. Known to grow wild in Cayenne (Pers.) ; and from 

 transported specimens described by Poiteau. — By European colonists, was carried across the 

 Atlantic to Sierra Leone (Benth., and fl. Nigr.). 



Hyptis brevipes of Tropical America. Known to grow wild there (A. Dec). Described by 

 Poiteau. — By European colonists, was carried across the Pacific to the Philippines (Benth.), Celebes, 

 Bouton near Pulo-Penang (herb. Dec), Java (Zoll ), and across the Atlantic to Fernando Po 

 (fl. Nigr.). 



"In this year" (Pursh), after his Astragal, "in 1800," Pallas publishing his Illustr. plant. 



" April 30th " (Holmes), through president Jefferson, Louisiana purchased of the French republic 

 for " fifteen million dollars." 



" In this year " (J. E. Smith), publication of the Annal. du Mus. ; — continued in twenty volumes. 



"1S04 Jan. 1st." (.Maunder), the French troops having finally abandoned Hayti, accession of 

 Dessalines to the supreme authority, under the title of " emperor." 



" The same year = 9th " of the emperor Kia-king (Pauth. 488), beginning of the seventy-fifth 

 Chinese cycle. 



" In this year" (app. Sibth., and Winckl.), Brotero publishing his Flor. Lusitan.J 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Aubert du Petit-Thouars publishing his Gen. nov. Maurit. et Mad- 

 agasc. ; — "in 1811," his Melang. bot. et voy. 



" In this year" (Winckl), A. Afzelius publishing his Plant. Guineens. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Palisot de Beauvois publishing his Flor. d'Oware et de Benin, — com- 

 pleted " in 1807." 



Coleus ? Afrieanus of Western Equatorial Africa. Observed there by Beauvois (A. Dec), and 

 known to be frequent from Guinea to the island of Saint-Thomas (fl. Nigr.). By European colonists, 

 was carried to Brazil, observed near Bahia by Gardner, and Blanchet. 



As early as this war (Willd. sp. pi. iii. p. 2035), Aster sagittifolius observed or received by 

 Wedemeyer from North America. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Lewis and Clark ascending the Missouri, on their way overland to the 

 Pacific, meeting with I 'cromca rcniformis, Salvia trichosteinoides, Airopsis bi cvi folia, Festuca spicata, 

 Oxybaphus ova/as, Swertia fastigiata, Elaeaginn ait;cn/ca, Sheplicrdia aigentea, Pliacelia linearis, 

 Ipomopsis aggregata, Ceanothus sanguineus, F> ifil/aria pttdiia, Lilium umbil/attii/i, Oenothera caespi- 

 tosa, Jussicua subacaulis, Dartonia onto fa, A triplex eancscens, Linaria tenelta, Mimulus Lewisii, 

 Atalanta serrulata, Malva coecinea, Anwrpha microphvlla, Liipinus pusillus ; Psoralea tenuijlora, 



* Cosmos caudatns of Mexico. Observed there by Humboldt and Bonpland — (A. Dec). By 

 European colonists was carried to Ceylon about 1822, observed by Gardner a frequent weed, spread- 

 ing in all directions (bot. ni.ig. fur 1848). 



t Hvptis spieala of Tropical America Observed by Poiteau on Hayti; — by N. A. Ware, in 

 Southern Florida (Nutt.) ; and by myself, along roadsides in Brazil and in the outskirts of Rio 

 Janeiro. Clearly by European colonists, was carried across the Pacific to the Marian Islands and 

 the Philippines (Benth.), was observed by myself on Mindanao. 



% Soliva riaiturtiifolia of the Lower La Plata. Known to grow in the district around Buenos- 

 Ayres (A. Dec). Transported to Europe, observed by Brotero naturalized in Portugal and termed 

 "hippia stolonifera " (Pers., and R. Brown) ; termed " gymnostyles nasturtiifolia " by A. L. Jussieu 

 in ann. mus. iv. pi. 61. f. 2 — (Pers., and Winckler). Also by European colonists was carried to 

 Northeast America, observed by Nuttall in the outskirts of Charleston. 



