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BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN MEMOIRS 
vated, mainly of St. Croix, a few from St. Thomas and St. Jan. Some of 
the descriptions are by Vahl. A number of the plants listed have not been 
observed on St. Croix by subsequent collectors and some of them are obscure. 
The author was rector of a school at Christiansted. The book is very rare. 
I am indebted to The New York Public Library for a photostat copy. 
Pierre Ledru. “Voyage aux iles de Ténériffe, La Trinité, Saint-Thomas, 
Sainte Croix et Porto Ricco, exécuté par ordre du gouvernement frangais, 
depuis le 30 septembre 1796 jusqu’ au 7 juin 1798, sous la direction du capitaine 
Baudin, pour faire des recherches et des collections relatives a l'histoire natur- 
elle; contenant des observations sur le climat, le sol, la population, l’agricul- 
ture, les productions de ces iles, le caractére, les moeurs et le commerce de 
leurs habitants.’ Ouvrage accompagné de notes et d’additions par M. 
Sonnini. Avec une trés belle carte gravée par J. B. Tardieu d’aprés Lopez. 
Paris. 2 vol. 1810. 
Ledru was the botanist and Anselme Riedlé the gardener of an expedition 
sent out by the Paris Museum of Natural History 1796-1798. Unfortunately, 
many of the specimens attributed to St. Thomas were in all probability col- 
lected on Porto Rico. Many living plants were brought back to the Jardin 
des Plantes. The botanical parts of the report are general and not extensive. 
L. de Schlechtendal. ‘Florula insulae Sti, Thomae Indiae occidentalis.” 
Linnaea, 3: 251-276; 4: 78-93; 5: 177-200, 682-688; 6: 722-772. 1828-1831. 
About 400 species are enumerated. The plants were collected by C. A. 
Ehrenberg, a merchant, in the years 1827 and 1828. The records are anno- 
tated and there are some descriptions. 
Henry Krebs. ‘Catalogue of plants found on the island of St. Thomas, W. I.” 
1852. [In John P. Knox: A historical account of St. Thomas, W. I., with 
its rise and progress in commerce, missions and churches, climate and its 
adaptation to invalids, geological structure, natural history and botany. 
New York.] . 
Over 1,200 plants are enumerated alphabetically, including many in culti- 
vation and some algae. Many of the records can not now be substantiated. 
Krebs had previously published an account of the geographic distribution of 
the Flora of St. Thomas. 
joerc mono <" Catalogue des plantes qui naissent spontanément dans I’isle de Saint- 
Thomas.” 1857. [Memorie della r. Acad. di Torino, II, 16: Ixxvi- 
Ixxxix. 
This is essentially the same document as the preceding. 
H. F. A. Eggers. ‘St. Croix’s Flora.’”’ Vidensk. Meddel. Kjgbenhavn. Pp. 33- 
158. 1876. 
Baron Eggers was a Danish official on St. Croix from 1869 to 1874, and 
made extensive botanical collections. He records 738 species, with anno- 
H. F. A. Eggers. “Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands, West Indies.” Bull. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. 13. Pp. 133: 1879. 
Baron Eggers was in command of Danish troops:on St. Thomas during 
most of the period between 1874 and 1887, and visited St. Jan. In this cat- 
alogue he enumerates 881 indigenous or naturalized species, with annotations, 
and also records many of the plants in cultivation. 
H. F. A. Eggers. “Supplement til St. Croix’s og Jomfrugernes Flora.” Vidensk. 
Meddel. Kj¢benhavn, pp. 11-21. 89. 
This work contains additional records to those previously published by 
the author. 
