EARLY INVESTIGATIGATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN FLORA 
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Botanical Museum at Upsala. 1 Both Bauhinus and Burserus, on 
his labels, tell us that the plants were collected by the above 
mentioned apothecary in the country of the Toupinambault in 
Brasilia. But Linnaeus, who dealt with this herbarium later on, 
states that they must have all come from Canada (Sp. pi. I, 
P- 305)- 
In C. Bauhinus’ Pinax theatri botanici of 1623, where all 
the plants known at that time are enumerated, we hardly find 
any North American species except the »arbor vitm» and the 
plants he had got from Burserus, as mentioned above. But in 
an Appendix to this work the author describes a number of newly 
discovered species, and of these six are from Virginia. The 
North American plants described in those two works af Bau¬ 
hinus’ are the following: 
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Acnida cannabina L. 
Adiantum pedatum L. 
A?-iscema triphyllum (L.) SCHOTT. 
Co?'?ius canadensis L. 
Oenothera biennis L. 
Rhus glabra L. 
Rhus toxicodendron L. 
Rhus typhina R. 
Rudbeckia laciniata L. 
Spircea hypericifolia L. 
Tradescantia virgmica L. 
Trientalis americana Pursh. 
Trillium erechini L. 
Uvula?ia pe?foliata L. 
The first work dealing specially with plants from North 
America was J. Cornuti’s Canadensium plantarum aliarumque 
nondum editarum historia of 1635. The author was a physician 
in Paris, who describes in this work a number of plants cultiva¬ 
ted in Parisian gardens, and among these about 40 species that 
were introduced from Canada. A list (not complete) of Cornuti’s 
new species is to be found in K. Sprengel’s Geschichte der 
Botanik, vol. 2 , p. 94 . From the same time there is De La 
Brosse’s catalogue of the Royal garden in Paris (1636, reprin¬ 
ted in S. Paulli, Viridaria varia, Hafnise 1653), which contains 
many names that evidently indicate North American species. 
1 In a paper entitled »Studien in Bursers Ilortus siccus», but not yet published, the 
author of these pages gives a fuller account of those specimens in Burserus’ herbarium 
which are dealt with in the botanical literature. 
