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Carolina to Florida, usually not far from the sea coast."* " In wet 

 and boggy soil."f 



This interesting little tree, it is generally supposed was discover- 

 ed by Michaux, sen. He was certainly the first botanist who describ- 

 ed it from specimens found in 1791 on St. Mary's river, Georgia. 

 Yet in the herbarium of the younger Linnseus, specimens have 

 been found, which must consequently have been collected prior to 

 Michaux's visit to North America, and it is supposed by European 

 botanists that those specimens had been transmitted by the elder 

 John Bartram, (the king's botanist.) Indeed, the name Bartramia 

 was designed for it. Georgia bark was first introduced into Eng- 

 land by the late Mr. John Eraser, in 1786, where it is only a green- 

 house plant. Michaux gave it the name it bears, in honour of general 

 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina, a gentleman, who, 

 to use the words of Mr. Elliott,J "amidst the avocations of a long 

 life, actively and honourably devoted to the service of his country, 

 has paid much attention to its botany." The affinity of the Georgia 

 bark with the different species of Cinchona, has been remarked by 

 many botanists ; but Michaux deemed it sufficiently at variance with 

 that genus in its fruit, to justify a severation. Whatever may be the 

 validity of the generic character, established by him, as separating 

 Pinckneya from Cinchona, it seems conceded by botanists that the 



* Nuttall. t Elliott. $ Sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia. 



