SUPPLEMENT 
TO 
THE FLORA OF LOUISIANA, 
BY C. S. RAFINESQUE* 
Whoever shall have the opportunity of comparing 
my labour with the fragments of Robin, will soon per¬ 
ceive the wide difference between our works. The 
numberless defects of his Flora were of such a nature 
as effectually precluded the possibility of ever^ being 
practically employed by the botanist. I have endea¬ 
voured to collect, name, and describe the objects which 
he had merely pointed out, and to select among ma¬ 
terials, generally drowned in useless and superfluous 
details, those that appeared new, important, or char¬ 
acteristic. My work is, therefore, quite different from 
Robin’s, and very far from a mere translation or com¬ 
pilation : having, however, derived the materials from 
him, it is just to give him credit for them, so far as he 
deserves. 
In order to render this Florida less incomplete, I 
mean to add in this Supplement, the enumeration of all 
the plants already mentioned by authors as natives of 
the State of Louisiana, and omitted bv Robin : those 
authors are principally Bartram, Michaux, Pursh, 
Muhlenberg, &c. 
Bartram visited the shores of the Mississippi, and 
has noticed some of the plants found there, in his tra¬ 
vels to Florida, &c. 
