OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1055 



lanceolata, argophylla ; Chrys voma graveolens, C. nauseosa; Artemisia gnaphalodes, cernua, Colum- 

 biensis; Brachyris sarothra, Aster canescens, Grindelia squarrosa, A melius? spinulosis, Diolis 

 lanata, Euphorbia marginata, Astragalus tenellus, Polygala alba (Ph. 750), — and beyond the Rocky 

 mountains, on the waters of the Columbia, Phacelia heterophylla, Phlox speciosa, Lonicera ci/iosa, 

 Ribes viscosissimum, R. sanguineum, R. auretim, Frangula alnifolia, Claytonia lanceolata, C. alsi- 

 noides, Berberis nervosa, Zygadenus elegans, Trillium petiolatum, Clarkia pulchella, Polygonum bis- 

 tortoides, Vaccinium ovatum, Cerastium elongatum, Sedum stenopetalum, Purshia trideniata, Spiraea 

 discolor, Gcum ciliatum, Clematis hirsutissima, Scutellaria angustifolia, Gerardia? fruticosa, Bartsia 

 tenuifolia, Dentaria tenella, Lupinus argenteus, L. sericeus, Astragalus Missouriensis, Trifolium 

 microcephalum, T. macrocephalum, Matricaria discoidea, Eri^eron? compositum, Trichophyllum 

 lanatum, Buphthalmum? sagittatum, Galardia aristata. — They returned "in 1806." 



" In this year " (append. Sibth., and Winckl.), Martin Vahl publishing his Enum. plant., including 

 Fimbristylis laxaj Scirpus polyphyllus ('■ brunneus " of Muhl., A. Gray). — He died before the close 

 of the year, — and the publication was completed "in 1806." 



" May 1st" (Maunder, and Nicol), shortly after the seizure and execution of the duke d'Enghien, 

 a motion in the Tribunate for conferring on Bonaparte the rank of emperor, with hereditary succes- 

 sion. The decree was adopted by the Senate. And " Dec. 2d," pope Pius VII. having come to Paris, 

 anointed the new emperor ; who placed the crown upon his own head. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Rebentisch publishing his Prodr. flor. neomarch. ; — "in 1805," his 

 Plant, berolin. 



"The same year" (Hale ethnogr. Expl. Exp. 173), Langsdorff with Krusenstern at the Nukuhi- 

 van or Marquesas Islands. 



"Oct. 7th" (Jap. mann. 274), Krusenstern off Nagasaki bringing a Russian ambassador, count 

 Resanoff. After entering the port, fears of connivance between the Russians and Dutch arose among 

 the Japanese, and on the arrival of a commissioner from Yedo, diplomatic intercourse was refused. 



"In the beginning of 1805" (pref. p. ix), Pursh journeying through Maryland and along the 

 Alleghanies of Virginia and Carolina, "returning late in the autumn through the lower countries along 

 the sea-coast," meeting with Heuchera pubescens, H. hispida, Phacelia Purshii, Euphorbia obtusata, 

 Lophiola aurea, Schisaea pusilla, Eragrostis Purshii, A mphicarpum Purshii, Dicliptera brachiata, 

 Cyperus poaeformis, Woodwardia thelypteroides, Exacum pulchellum, Ceanothus perennis, Impatiens 

 pallida, Prinos lanceolatus, Saxifraga erosa, Silene ovata, Agrimonia suaveolens, Scutellaria ner- 

 vosa, Dielytra eximia, Aster Jlexuosus, A. reticulatus. 



"In this year" (Pers. ii. p. 403, and Winckl ), after his Gen. plant, "in 1802," Leopold Trattenik 

 publishing his Thesaur. botan., — the 80th and last coloured plate "in [S19: " his Gen. nov. plant, 

 "in 1825." 



"Oct. 21st" (Maunder), naval combat of Trafalgar; the French and Spanish fleets "nearly 

 annihilated" by the English under Nelson. "Nov. 13th," Vienna occupied by the French. 



" In this year" (Spreng ), Thonning and Palisot de Beauvois publishing their Flore d'Oware et 

 de Benin, — completed "in 18 10." 



"In this year" (title-page), publication of Vol. i. of the Persoon Synopsis Plantarum ; — "in 

 1807," the second and concluding volume, completing the enumeration of nearly "twenty-two thou- 

 sand" species (Spreng.). 



" In this year" (title-page), Willdenow publishing the Fourth volume of his Sp. plant., enumerat- 

 ing* Platanthera fissa labell. "laciniis cuneiformibus dentatis " (Muhl.), Cypripedium candidum 

 (Muhl.), Carex digitalis, Scleria verticillata (Muhl ), Salix longifolia (Muhl.), Andropogon furcatus 

 (Muhl.), Hicrochloa alpina (Swartz in litt.), Parietaria Pensylvanica (Muhl.). 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Erich Acharius publishing his Methodus lichenum; — "in 1810," his 

 Lichenograph. univers. ; and "in 1814," his Synops. method, lichenum. 



" In this ye;ir" (Spreng.), J. V. F. Lamouroux publishing Dissertations sur espe"ces de Fucus. 



"In this year" (Spreng.), J. B. von Albertini and L. D. von Schweinitz publishing their Con- 

 spect. fung. niesk. 



"In this year" (A. Gray man. bot. p. 552), Mar. Lagasca publishing descriptions of grasses, 

 including Bouleloua hirsuta. 



" 1806 A. D." (Jap. mann. 281), under instructions from the repelled ambassador Resanoff, two 

 Russian officers landing upon Saghalien, belonging to Japan, plundering villages and carrying off many 

 of the natives The Japanese government was utterly confounded, but the only immediate result was 



* Acacia mollissima of Australia. From transported specimens described by Willdenow (Steud.). 

 By European colonists was carried to Hindustan, where it is "thickly sown and planted in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ootacamund" for firewood, but its bark "is useful for tanning, and a tar has been obtained 

 from the wood" (Morgan, and Drury). 



