OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1061 



"Dec. 6th" (reliq. 174-86 and 343), after visiting the Bermudas in "May 18 15," Baldwin "in 

 a packet from St. Mary's " arriving at Fernandina, and proceeding farther South in Florida, meeting 

 with Stellaria prostrata 192, Xyris fimbriata 210, — and on another excursion in the following year 

 as far as New Smyrna. 



"1817 A. D." (Inman), the territory of Mississippi divided, and its Western portion admitted 

 into the Union as the State of Mississippi. 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Joh. Jak. Romer and Jos. Aug. Schultes publishing their Systema 

 vegetabil. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Karl Ad. Agardh publishing his Synops. algar. scan. 



" The same year " (Hale ethnogr. Expl. Exp. p. 119), Kadu, a native of Ulea in the Carolines, found 

 by Kotzebue upon Aur in the Radack coral-archipelago ; having "been driven in a canoe with three " 

 companions "nearly fifteen hundred miles due east." Chamisso * accompanying Kotzebue to Oahu 

 late in this as well as in the preceding year (Mann). 



At this time (Nutt. gen. 35, and B. r. 292), Isaac Cleaver in the environs of Philadelphia, meeting 

 with Cyperns Cleaveri. 



"In this year" (reliq. Baldw. 202-48), Stephen Elliot publishing the first four numbers of his 

 sketch bot. S. Carol, and Georgia, enumerating in these and the succeeding numbers Dest?iodium 

 rigidum, Ludwigia sphcerocarpa, Schweinitsia odorata, Sabbatia brachiata, Aristida gracilis, Paspa- 

 luni Jluitaiis, Panicum amarum, Andropogon argenteus, Carex comosa, Nabalus Frazeri, Diplo- 

 pappus obovatus, Boltonia diffusa, Utricularia biparlita, Eragroslis conferta, E. nitida, Tricuspis 

 ambi'gua, Festuca parvijiora : — his Second and concluding volume "in 1824." 



" To this year " (title-page), NuttalFs Genera and Catalogue of the species of N. American plants 

 extends, including Anychia capillacea. — The work was published " in 1818." 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Martius travelling in Brazil. — He remained "until 1820," and com- 

 menced publishing his Palms "in 1823," and Flor. Brazil "in 1829." 



" 1818 A. D." (Inman), the territory of Illinois admitted into the Union as the "twenty-second" 

 State. 



" In this year" (Pritzel), Conrad Loddiges publishing his Botanical Cabinet, coloured plates of 

 plants — "two thousand" in all down to the Twentieth volume "in 1833." 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Bonpland appointed professor at Paraguay:! — ' ie proceeded there 

 "in 1820." 



"In this year" (Winckl), Wallich at Calcutta publishing his Rar. plant. Ind. — His Plant, 

 asiat. rar. was published in London "in 1830-2." 



" Oct. 9th " (Maunder), evacuation of French territory determined on by the congress at Aix-la- 

 Chapelle ; and before the close of the year, the foreign troops withdrawn. 



" 1819, June nth " (B. r. 252 to 321), after visiting Rio Janeiro and the La Plata " Jan. 29th to 

 May 4th, 18 18," St. Salvador " May 29th to June 5th," Margarita " 23-5^," Baldwin at St. Louis on 

 Long's Expedition, meeting with Astragalus ATcxicanus. He died " Sept. 1st" at Franklin ; — and a 

 portion of his Botanical correspondence was published by Darlington "in 1843." 



" August " (Humb. cosm. iv), the return of a comet after a short period of revolution, " 1204 days " 

 only, ascertained by Encke. — Five other interior comets, those of Biela, Faye, De Vico, Brorsen, 

 and D'Arrest, were discovered " between 1826 and 1851." 



" August" (Mann), Gaudichaud accompanying Freycinet to the Hawaiian Islands. — He made a 

 second visit in " 1836." 



"Dec. 17th " (Maunder), after a victory over the Spaniards by Bolivar dictator of Venezuela, 

 union with New Grenada under the name of Colombia. 



" In this year" (biogr. mem.), Nuttall travelling from the Mississippi along the Arkansas river, 

 to Salt Lake river and across to the confluence of the Kiameska and Red river, meeting with % Phace- 

 lia glabra, P. hirsuta. — Returning, he reached New Orleans "Feb. 18th, 1820." 



* Escholtzia Californica of North California. Discovered there by Chamisso. — Transported to 

 Europe and already naturalized around Angers in " 1850" (A. Dec.) 



f Osbeckia princeps of the Cape Verd Islands. Observed by Bonpland pi. in Brazil; — but 

 according to Naudin fl. Nigr. 130, brought there by imported Negroes (A. Dec). 



\ Coreopsis tinctoria of the unwooded central and Western portion of North America. Dis- 

 covered by Nuttall far up the Arkansas. — From seeds brought by him, cultivated, soon becoming a 

 favourite garden flower; was observed by myself in 1838 in Brazil, at the window of a dwelling in the 

 midst of the gorgeous vegetation investing the Organ Mountains ; about the same time by Graham 

 in Hindustan, "common in gardens " and found by Law " almost naturalized about Belgaum." 



