unequally 4 valved, pedicels erect; 
corols white, obcordate, mucronate; 
capsules globose. In West Ken- 
tucky, flowers vernal, scape four to 
six inches, slender; one valve of the 
spathe very long, rigid; three very 
small, scariose. 
23. Scirpus typhinus, Raf. disc. 
1804. Leafless; scape compressed, 
striated; spike terminal, cylindrical; 
scales ovate elliptic, obtuse, con- 
cave, smooth, rufous, with scariose 
margin. Pennsylvania hills, one or 
two feet. 
24. Scirpus nudus, Raf. disc. 1804. 
Differs from the last by scape slen- 
der, not striate; spike small, ellipti- 
cal ; scales ovate, acute, scariose. 
Virginia, small, hardly a foot high. 
Many other interesting plants 
were sent in this century, which 
may be noticed hereafter; such as 
Lechea linifolia and paucifolia. 
Juncus falcatus. 
Neottia montana and gracilis. 
Tradescantia rupestris. 
Melanthium longifolium. 
Collinsia purpurea. 
Plantago gonophylla, &c. &c. . 
IS. ZOOLOGY. 
On the large wandering Tygers or 
Jaguars of the United States . 
By C. S. Rafinesque. 
The Jaguars are the spotted 
Tygers of America, found from 
Mexico to Paraguay. It was sup- 
posed that none were ever Seen 
further north or with us; they are 
hardly mentioned in our Zoological 
books, and their casual visits dis- 
believed by many when they hear 
of them. But Humboldt has lately 
ascertained that the striped Tyger 
of India, often wanders * to the 
north as far as Tartary amd Siberia. 
I will prove that the spotted 
Jaguars do the same in America, 
and wander as far as Kentucky 
and Lake Erie in latitude 42. This 
always happens in summer, and is 
not at all extraordinary, since our 
summers are as warm as in the 
tropics, and these carnivorous 
animals are known to range very 
far in search of prey. 
Several instances of huge beasts 
having been seen in Louisiana, 
Arkanzas, and Kentucky could be 
collected by enquiries among old 
hunters. When seen at a distance 
only, they are commonly mistaken 
for large Panthers, our unspotted 
Couguar. When seen too near, the 
boldest hunters are afraid of them* 
When shot, nobody knows them, 
not even the Indians; and the skins 
are soldhigh at once lor side-saddles. 
Sometimes the account gets into 
some newspaper, but is usually dis- 
believed or soon forgotten. 
Harlan in his Fauna Americana 
only mentions that the Jaguar or 
Felis onza of the naturalists wander 
sometimes east of the Mississippi* 
which must be crossed by swim- 
ming. This animal comes as far 
north as Kentucky in lat. 38. 
While I was in Kentucky I heard 
of several having been seen and 
shot. Two of them, a male and 
female, did once make a stand near 
Russel ville, and alarm many tra- 
vellers, feeding on hogs, until a 
party of hunters went in pursuit 
of them, killed one, and drove 
away the other. 
Before that another had been shot 
on the 6th of June, 1820, by - Mr. 
John Six, on Green River, 10 miles 
south-east of Hartford, in Ohio 
county. The skin was brought to 
Frankfort and an account given in 
the papers. This animal appeared 
to be a true Mexican Jaguar. The 
body was 5 feet long and the tail 
2 feet. It weighed 150 pounds be- 
fore skinning. The back and sides 
were yellow with black spots curi- 
ously arranged in several rows, a 
row on the back m$ch larger and 
extending over half of the tail, 
which was rather slender, with very 
long hair at the end. Chin, 
belly, and feet white, ears small 
round black outside, white inside. 
Whiskers stiff 6 inches long, black 
with the end white. 
But another Jaguar still larger 
