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English gardens of this time contained plants from Virginia, seve¬ 
ral of which are recorded in the works of Parkinson (Paradisus 
terrestris 1629; Theatrum botanicum 1640) and Tradescant 
(Museum Tradescantianum 1656). 
Towards the end of the 17th century the botanical gardens 
gradually became richer in plants from North America. Pluke- 
nett’s Phytographia (1691—96), Morison’s Plantarum historia 
Oxoniensis, vol. 3 (ed. by Bobart 1699), PIermann’s posthumous 
work Paradisus Batavus (1705) may be mentioned as containing 
many new species of this origin, described from garden specimens. 
From this time we can notice a tendency to an investiga¬ 
tion of the North American flora by people settled in that coun¬ 
try. The most renowned of these was J. Banister, one of the 
earliest English colonists in Virginia, who collected numerous 
plants, of which Rajus gives a list in the 2nd vol. of hisPIistoria 
plantarum (1688). Several of his plants are also described in 
Plukenett’s Phytographia. His herbarium came into the posses¬ 
sion of Sloane, whose collections are now kept in the British 
Museum in London. Vernon and Krieg, two other Virginian 
colonists, sent collections of plants to Rajus, who described them 
in the 3rd part of Historia plantarum (1704). 
A still more prominent collector was M. Catesby. Pie went 
to Virginia in 1712 and dwelt there seven years collecting plants 
and seeds, which he sent to England. If and by whom these 
were described I do not know. In 1722 the excellent botanist 
W. Sherard, known as the owner of the largest herbarium of 
his time, sent him to the southern provinces of North America, 
where he travelled for four years and made rich collections, 
especially of plants and birds, which he described and reproduced 
in the splendid work »The natural history of Carolina, Florida 
and the Bahama Islands (1731—43). In this the descriptions 
are said to be written by Sherard. The new species of this 
work are enumerated by Sprengel (Gesch. der Bot. II, p. 203). 
We now have arrived at the time when Linnaeus made his 
first appearance. The number of North American plants that he 
knew by autopsia before he went abroad, could not have been 
