APPENDIX 
TO THE 
TREES AND SHRUBS OF LOUISIANA. 
While the Supplement of this work was under the 
press, the Geographical Description of Louisiana, by 
William Darby, fell into my hands. Having perceiv¬ 
ed in it, several elaborate Catalogues of the trees and 
shrubs, growing in the different parts of that State, 
some of which had not been observed by Robin, Bar- 
tram, &c. and some additional geographical and eco¬ 
nomical remarks on others, I have been induced to 
enumerate those additions, for which we are indebted 
to Mr. Darby ; correcting, at the same time, several 
errors of nomenclature, into which he appears to have 
fallen. It has been the fate of Louisiana to be ex¬ 
plored by individuals, very imperfectly acquainted 
with Botany, and whose blunders, wherever they at¬ 
tempt to state any thing above mere facts, assume the 
most singular character. Mr. Darby does not appear 
to have been acquainted with the work of Robin; his 
guide has been the mere Catalogue of Muhlenberg, 
and Michaux’s work on the trees of North America, yet 
without noticing it. He has not favoured us with the 
descriptions of his few new trees ; but, by some hasty 
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