THE FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA. 13 
he raised many of the seeds he had gathered, and many more were 
cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Upsala. As stated before, 
he published: s 
En resa till Norra Amerika (A Journey to North America), in 3 volumes, 
1853—’61. [This has been translated into German and English, and is one of the 
best accounts of this country at that period. ] 
Norra Amerikanska farge-drter, published in 1763. 
He intended to publish a larger descriptive work on the plants 
and animals he met with on his journey, but this was never done, 
very likely because he had spent all his funds. All, or at least 
most of his plants were published by Linneus in his “Species 
Plantarum.”’ 
Carolus Linnaeus or CARL von Linné was born at Rashult, 
Smaland, Sweden, the 13th of May (old style), 1707, and died at 
Upsala the 10th of January, 1778. There is no need of going into 
details of his life-history, for it will be given extensively over and 
over again this year. Only a few words may be given to show his 
work on American botany. I shall give it more extensively else- 
where. 
He became acquainted with the North American plants from 
the finely illustrated works of Plumier, Plukenet, Catesby, Sloane, 
and Gronovius: also those of Petiver, Morrison, and Cornuti. 
Through Gronovius he had a chance to see Clayton’s collection. 
Sloane’s and Catesby’s plants he saw on his visit to England. 
He described himself the plants collected by Kalm. A few Amer- 
ican plants were already under cultivation. These were all incor- 
porated in the first edition of “Species Plantarum.” He after- 
wards received plants from Barthram and from Colden and his 
daughter Jane. He corresponded with John Ellis, a resident in 
the West Indies, and Dr. Gardner, who botanized in Carolina and 
Florida. Later he purchased a set of West Indian plants collected 
by Patrick Browne, and received a part of Jacquin’s collections 
through exchange. These were described in the 10th edition of 
his “Systema Nature” and in the 2nd edition of “Species Planta- 
rum.” In all, he described about 2,000 North American plants. 
The works which in part bear on North American botany are: 
Species Plantarum, 1753; Edition 2, 1762—63. 
Systema Nature, Ed. 10, 1758—’59. 
Daniel Carl was born the 12th of February, 1733, at 
Pited, Sweden. In 1759 he moved to England, and became libra- 
