1 Medico- ltntnnirnl CataiogUB if Plants, ^«C. 5 



gist, i. dice ting in every ease/ what kind of lands they prefer, 

 whether oak, hickory, or swamp, whet net immersed in ponds 

 flourishing in inundated soils, or living in dry pine barrens. 



U r musi express our very great obligation to II. \\ . Etavenel, 

 Esq., ol North Hampton, St. Johns Berkley, for the use ol his 

 catalogue, and for the determination and confirmation of nu mo- 

 ron . but more particularly (or the grammes contained 



assisted us in the valuable task of adapting 

 many of Elliott to the nomenclature of Eaton's Manual 



1 ol the still more recent work ol Tony and Grray. The 

 former is nlluded to because it has beeu in such general use, the 

 latter is now universally recognized as the standard by which 



era are determined and synonymes compared. When that 

 laborious work* shall be completed, n science continually under- 



ng alteration will demand the complete revision of Klliott's 

 sketch. 



We also acknowledge the receipt of a list of plants, collected 

 in the lower portion of the Parish by the ELev'd 0. Wallace, from 

 this we hav I two or three species which had escaped our 



notice. To Prof. ],. K. Ciibbesof the Charleston College, we are 

 indebted lor examining with us, and determining several unas- 

 certaii Prof. C U. Shepherd has enabled us to com- 



pare .some of our plants with those growing in a more northern 

 latitude. Between 50 and 100 doubtful specimens collected by 

 Mr. Ravenel ami myself either not accurately described, or not 

 contained in Elliott, have been transferred to that veteran botan- 

 ist, Pro . Gray <•;' Cambridge) and we have been gratified at re- 

 ceivii, :n in time, to enable us to embody and present them 



to the Faculty A the South-Carolina Medical College. 



In cider that greater accuracy might be ensured, Dr. John 

 Bach man very kindly allowed us to compare our specimens 

 with his own. and with those in the Herbarium of Mr. Elliott, 

 at present in his possession. 



Those alluded to by Blliott or MacBride, as growing in the 



■iniiy of I 8 ; inal, which we have not seen, are distin- 



guished by an asterisk (*) ; and in the body of the catalogue, we 

 hai ugnated those afterwards referred to as medicinal, by a 

 cr . placed on lines running parallel with, and to the left of 



the column 



lioatioo ii: a <> potol of view, where we 



oft»*n ; the priority, or posteriority of formations, from a 



know |. . found imbedded in the different strata, lam 



slight mistake i I Mr. Lyell in relation to tl. I i.micha, 



an- want of an 8 with tlr ; - ;a ]»■ 



or immersion ai the I urn. 



ism; 



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