Sossrlpn as a Botanist. 17 



his arrangement is alfo creditable to his botanical knowl- 

 edge. By this arrangement, his collections are diftin- 

 guifhed into — 



1. '• Such plants as are common with us in England." 



2. " Such plants as are proper to the country." 



3. " Such plants as are proper to the country, and have no name." 



4. '• Such plants as have sprung up since the English planted and kept 



cattle in New England." 



The lait of thefe divifions is the moft valuable part of 

 JoiTelyn's account, as it affords the only teftimony that 

 there is to the firft notice among us of a number of now 

 naturalized weeds, which it is an interefting queftion to 

 feparate from the more important clafs of plants truly 

 indigenous in, and common to, both hemifpheres; and the 

 author's treatment of the latter — as indeed of the other 

 two lifts mentioned above — fhows that he was competent, 

 in a meafure, to reckon the former. This furnifhes a date, 

 and an early one; and there is no other till 1785, when 

 Dr. Manaffeh Cutler's Memoir, to be fpoken of, enables us 

 to limit the appearance of fome other fpecies not men- 

 tioned by Joffelyn. 



There is no work of any fize or importance on New- 

 England plants, after Joffelyn, for the whole century which 

 followed. We were not, indeed, without men in diftin- 

 guifhed connection with the European fcientific world. 

 The moft eminent New-England family gained honors in 

 fcience, as well as in the conducT: of affairs. John Win- 

 throp the younger, eldeft fon of the firft Governor of 

 Maffachufetts, — and the " heir," fays Savage, " of all his 



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