1062 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



In this year, William Oakes in college at Cambridge, devoted to Botany.* 



At this time (Nutt. gen.), Zaccheus Collins continuing his explorations of peninsular New Jersey 

 and the environs of Philadelphia. t 



Before the Expedition of Ismael Pasha up the Nile, the king of Sennar held dominion over Nubia 

 as low down as Wadi Haifa (Leps. eg. and sin. 176). 



" In this year" (Spreng. comm. Diosc. iii. 84), P. della Cella publishing his Travels from Tripoli 

 to the frontier of Egypt. 



" In this year" (Winckl.), Dumont d'Urville visiting the Greek islands and the shores of the 

 Black Sea. — He published his Enum. of observed plants " in 1S22." 



" 1819-20" ( . ), Edwin James, having succeeded Baldwin, accompanying Long's Expedi- 



tion from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains, meeting with Quercus undulata (Brendel), Mimulus 

 Jamesii. 



" 1820, Sept. 2d" (Pauth. 469), death of Kia-king, "of the Tai-thsing" or Twenty-fourth dynasty. 

 He was succeeded by Tao-kouang, three hundred and fifth Chinese emperor. 



" The same year" (Inman), the district of Maine detached from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts 

 and admitted into the Union as a State : the territories of Arkansas and Alabama also admitted into 

 the Union as States. 



"In this year" (Levchine kirgh. i. 6), mission of Meyendorf from Orenbourg to Boukhara, 

 accompanied by the naturalists Pander and Eversmann. — A second excursion into the region around 

 the Aral Sea was made by Eversmann in " 1825." 



" In this year " (Winckl.), J. G. Chr. Lehmann publishing his monogr. Spiraea, — completed " in 

 1835." He published his Cycad. "in 1834," and Plant. Preissianae "in 1844-7." 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Karl Joh. Hartmann publishing his Handbok i Skandinaviens Flora; 

 ■ — a Second edition "in 1S32," Third "in 1838," and a later one "in 1849" (^ '- ,ec - 7°6)- 



" 1S21 A. D." (Inman), the. territory of Florida ceded by Spain to the United States. In the 

 U. S. congress, the Missouri compromise: establishing beyond the Mississippi Lat. 36° 30' as the 

 Northern boundary of slave labor, but admitting territory with a strip extending below this line, as 

 the State of Missouri. 



"March 7th" (Maunder), proclamation of Ypsilanti at Jassy in Moldavia, foreshadowing the 

 rising of the Greeks against the Turkish government. " March 23d," outbreak at Calavrita in the 

 Peloponnesus, and " eighty Turks made prisoners." A collision "on the same day" at Patras. 



" In this year" (Burnouf introd. 1 to 4), by B. H. Hodgson, English resident at Kathmandu in 

 Nepal, discovery of numerous Buddhist works written in the Sanscrit language ; the source of the 

 Buddhist sacred books existing in translations throughout Thibet Mongolia and China. — In " r824," 

 he commenced sending copies of these Sanscrit writings to Calcutta, transmitted some to London in 

 " 1830," and some to Paris in " 1837." 



'• In this year " (A. Dec. g. b. 1032), Bade in Senegal. — He afterwards visited Montevideo and 

 Buenos Ayres. 



Schiillesia stenophylla of Tropical America. By European colonists, carried across the Atlantic 

 to Senegal, observed there by Bade near Fel da Terra — (herb. Dec). Westward, known to grow 

 wild from Mexico and the West Indies to Guayana and Brazil (Mart., Griseb., and A. Dec). 



" In this year" (title-page), Descourtilz publishing his Flor. med. Antill., — continued in ... . 

 volumes. 



" In this year " (Pritzel), after his Muscor. propag. " in 1S18," T. F. L. Nees von Esenbeck pub- 

 lishing his Plant, officinales. 



"The same year" (title-page), Steudel publishing his Nomenclator Botanicus, an alphabetical 

 list of the genera and species of plants. 



At this time (Winckl.), commencing "in 1814," Elias Fr. Fries continuing his Novit. fl. suec, % 



* Hypericum Oakesii of Northeast America. Upright, a foot or more high, resembling H. Can- 

 adense, but with ovate pointed five-nerved leaves : — mentioned to me by Oakes on my first acquaint- 

 ance in 1823, and observed by myself from 45 ° on Mount Desert to 38 ° in the Delaware peninsula; 

 by Nuttall, along the Arkansas, marked as undescribed but not named. (See H. quinquenervium). 



f Scirpus {holt-pis?) subtermiiialis. An aquatic, its terete rush-like pointed stem rising obliquely 

 out of the water, accompanied by tuft of slender floating fronds : — observed or received by Collins 

 from Quaker-bridge in New Jersey; — described by Torrey ; and observed by myself in Pleasant lake 

 in Wenham, where of late years I have looked for it in vain : grows also according to A. Gray in 

 " Michigan, and westward." 



\ A/ci/iia^o sylvestris of ... . Distinguished by Fries — (A. Dec): regarded as exotic in 

 Britain, maintained only by the continual importation of seed for cultivation (Wats., and A. Dec). 



