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NEW FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
MONOGRAPH 
OF THE GENUS KUHNIA, 
WITH REMARKS. 
BY PROF. C. S. RAFINESQUE. 
OCTOBER 1836 . 
This curious Genus has appeared to puzzle 
many Botanists, the species being rare and lo- 
cal, have been seen by few of them, and they 
have often copied each other, or mistaken those 
seen. Sir James femith has given a good ac- 
count in Rees Cyclopedia, of some old blunders 
about it ; but many more remain to be detected : 
the original linnean species having again been 
found on the very spot where Dr. Kuhn proba- 
bly procured the specimen he took to Linneus, 
affords the opportunity to do so, and to notice 
at the same time the other kinds discovered by 
Elliot and myself. 
Dr. Adam Kuhn was but a poor botanist and 
hardly deserved to have such a fine Genus 
named after him : he has written nothing ; but 
only gave the first linnean Lectures in North 
America. It appears that he did not even find 
himself the first Kuhnia , but it was brought to 
him, and he had the only merit to take it to 
Linneus, who flattered by having a Student 
coming to him from Pennsylvania, and struck 
by the anomaly of the Stamina, dedicated the 
same to him as a new Genus. Schoepf has 
written that having applied to Dr. Kuhn to know 
the locality of the plant, he could not tell, not 
