HISTORICAL SKETCH. 15 
Botanists. They were chiefly found by foreign 
travellers, collectors or gardeners and sent to 
Europe. Kahn, Kin, Noisette, Hingston, Drum- 
mond, Lyons, Bradbury &c found many such 
in their remote explorations, and so have I. 
Whoever therefore neglects my discoveries is 
either jealous of them, or unable to distinguish 
plants. But careless Botanists are often blind to 
disparities and overlook those rare species, I 
did so myself once and deemed with Muhlen- 
berg that 15 species of our Lactucas were all 
It . elongata ! thus blending and overlooking 
distinct sp. So they do to this day, and then they 
say they cant see them I 
NORTH AMERICAN NEOPHYTON. 
I shall dedicate the second part of this flora 
to describe some of my most remarkable New 
Herbaceous Plants either new Genera or new 
Species, reserving the new Trees and Shrubs 
for the New Sylva of the third part. They 
shall be enumerated at random rather than by 
monographs, as I shall refer to them in my fu- 
ture Monographs and natural arrangement. I 
possess specimens of the whole, and they are 
all figured in my Autikon and leones rariorum 
by those numbers here employed. 
201. ODOGLOSSA Raf. meaning toothed 
ligule. A new Genus near to Coreopsis and 
Vernasolis , but differing by the neutral rays, 
and male floscules mixt in the disk. 
Perianthe double, both octophylous, the in- 
ternal colored. Phoranthe convex, chaffs seta- 
ceous and few. Rays 8 neutral, rudiment of 
Ovary linear bidentate, tube flat imperforate, 
