€arlu Botanical Wvittxg. 
ble for its elegant prefentation of much that was new; and 
it will always deferve honorable remembrance in the hif- 
tory of our Flora. There are feveral palfages of it — as 
at pp. 5 and 7, and in the account of the two baneberries 
at p. 76, where we read, " Opacis et fylveftribus locis in 
eadem Americas parte frequentiffimum eft geminum ge- 
nus " — which look a little like a proper botanical collec- 
tor's notes on his fpecimens; and thefe fpecimens, and the 
others from the fame region, may well have been remits 
of the herborizing of that worthy Francifcan miffionary, 
whofe early obfervations on the natural hiftory of Canada 
have been mentioned already above. Nor were the 
North-American plants poifeffed by Cornuti entirely con- 
fined to this region; for he fpeaks at the end (p. 214) of 
his having received a root, ex notha Anglia, as he ftrangely 
calls it, known, it appears, by the name of Serpentaria, or, 
in the vernacular, Snaqroel, — a fure remedy for the bite 
of a huge and moft pernicious ferpent in notha Anglia, — 
which was no doubt the fnake-root fo famous once as a 
cure for the bite of a rattlefnake, and one of the numerous 
varieties of Nabalus albns (L.) Hook., if not, as Purfh 
fuppofed, what is now the var. Serpcntaria, Gray. But 
fome view of the fcantinefs of fcientific knowledge of our 
Flora, near forty years after Cornuti, may be had by reck- 
oning the number of fpecies for which Bauhin's " Pinax " 
took exception, was that of Lobel ; and farther, that the catalogue — Enchiridium 
Botanicum Parisiense — which is annexed to Cornuti's larger work, is in several 
respects creditable to him. — Biog. Univ., in loco. 
