OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 1067 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Friedrich Link publishing his Symbol. Flor. Graec. (Linnaea ix.). 



"Sept. 3d" (biogr. mem., and am. sylv.), after leaving Independence on the Missouri "Apr. 

 28th," Nuttall and Townsend coming in sight of the Columbia, and at the "close of September" 

 reaching Fori Vancouver. 



"In this year "(Winckl.), Charles C. Babington publishing his Flor. Bathon. ; — "in 1839," Primit. 

 Flor. Sarn. ; "in 1 841," veg. Hebrid. 



"/ 8 35> J an - 5 tn " (biogr. mem. and am. sylv.), Nuttall from Oregon arriving at Oahu, one of the 

 Hawaiian Islands. Leaving Townsend, he proceeded to California, and reached Monterey in 

 "March," continued his researches as far as Santa Barbara in "about 34," — and returned by sea, 

 arriving at Boston in the "beginning of October, 1835." He died " Sept. 10th, 1859." 



At this time (....) Pitcher examining the plants growing around Lake Huron and on the 

 Arkansas, meeting with Cirsium Pitcheri. 



" In this year" (Pritzel), E. H. F. Meyer publishing Botanical observations of J. F. Drege, who 

 had spent "eight years" in Austral Africa. — Drege published his Catalogue of the dried plants "in 

 1837-40." 



" 1836, Jan. 12th, towards midnight " (Dallet ii. 92), Pierre-Philibert Maubant passing the Chi- 

 nese custom-house at Pien-men. Continuing Eastward, he succeeded in entering Corea. The pio- 

 neer of the French missionaries. 



In this year (A. Dec. g. b. 761), Bojer at the Mauritius Islands writing his Hort. Maurit, — 

 published in " 1837." 



The following plants enumerated by Bojer as growing on the lofty mountains of the Comoro 

 Islands : Waltheria debi is, biennial; Plectranthus tematus, perennial. 



And on the lofty mountains of the Mauritius Islands : Dombeya ferruginea, a shrub ; D. punc- 

 tata, also a shrub ; Trochetia Candolleana, a shrub ; Toddalia angustijolia, suffruticose ; Diste- 

 phanus populijolius, a Conyzoid shrub; Psiadia linear if olia j Monarrhenus rufescens, a shrub; 

 Cylindrocliue Commersonii, a shrub ; Gnaphalium caspitosum, G. multkaule, and G. yuccafolium, 

 all suffruticose ; G. arnicoides, annual, growing also on Madagascar; Senecio cernuus, and JT. cacali- 

 cides? annuals ; S. penicillatus, suffruticose ; S. pollicaris, perennial ; Campanula ensifolia, peren- 

 nial; Andromeda salicifolia, and A. buxifolia, shrubs ; Sa taxis arborescens, and S. abietina, shrubs; 

 S. montana, suffruticose ; Rochelia Borbonica, annual ; Nuxia verticillata, a shrub ; Plectranlhus 

 Mauritianus, perennial ; Justicia (Hypoeslis) serpens, perennial ; Sapium obtusifolium, a bush ; Moni- 

 mia ovalifolia, a shrub; Boehmeria urticafolia, a shrub; Bulbophyllum pusillum, an epidendric 

 Orchideous plant ; hypoxis angustifoha, perennial ; Piper portulacoides, perennial, epidendric. 



" In this year" (Brend.J, Hartweg arriving in Mexico, meeting with Quercus barbinervis, gla- 

 brescens, Grahami, Skinneri, Sonomensis, dysoikylla, Benthami, Tlapuxahuensis, laeta (publ. by 

 Bentham). — He remained until " 1840." 



"At the same time" (Brendel), Galeotti and Ghiesbreght in Mexico, meeting with Quercus 

 lanigera, lutescens, Ghieibreghtii, nitens, insignis, rugulcua, glaiuoides, callosa (publ. bull. acad. Brux. 

 for 1843). 



In this year (....), Short in Kentucky,* meeting with Brachychaeta cordata, Vesicaria Shortii, 

 Ludwigia polycarpa, Thaspium pinnatifiduin. 



"In this year" (Pritzel), after his Synops. Asterum "in 18 r 8," Agrostolog. brasil. "in 1829," 

 Gen. and sp. Asterearum "in 1832," C. G. Nees von Esenbeck publishing his Systema Laurinarum. 



"In this year" (Pritzel), after his Gram, sicul. "in 1818," Symbol, botan. "in 1832-3," Presl 

 publishing his Prodr. monog. Lobeliac. : — his Suppl. pteridograph. "in 1S45." 



" 1837, in the beginning of the year" (Pauth. 472), publication in European gazettes of the proc- 

 lamation of Tao-kouang : Forbidding the preaching of Christianity in China. The concluding event 

 in Pauthier's historical description of China : — though the work itself was issued two years later at 

 Paris. 



"July" (Jap. mann. 271), sailing from Macao of Dr. Parker and Rev. Charles Gutzlaff in a mis- 

 sionary vessel, carrying home " some shipwrecked Japanese : " but approaching forbidden ports, were 

 fired upon, and returned to Macao. 



"The same year" (Inman), the territory of Michigan admitted into the Union as the "twenty- 

 sixth" State. f 



* Zygadenus leimanthoides of the alluvial border of Northeast America. In or about this year, 

 specimens brought " from New Jersey " found by Durand in the Philadelphia market and shown 

 me : — afterwards, the plant was found by Knieskern growing in New Jersey, and was received by A. 

 Gray from "Virginia, and southward." 



\ Quercus corrugala of Guatemala. Transported to Europe is described by Hooker icon. — 

 (Brendel). 



