Ho.iuick: Erect Sitky LEATHER FLOWER I2I 
Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, England, in 1767. These speci- 
mens, also, were probably obtained from Virginia, although they 
were merely recorded as having originated in North America. 
The first discovery of the species in New York appears to have 
been by Caspar Wistar Eddy, in 1806, on Long Island; and it was 
listed as occurring “in woods about a mile from Brooklyn, Long 
Island,” in a catalogue prepared by a committee of the New York 
Lyceum of Natural History, consisting of Eddy, D’Jurco Knevals, 
and John Torrey,’ and was subsequently described and figured in 
Torrey’s Flora of the State of New York,® the description and 
figure being evidently based upon a plant from Eddy’s locality, 
as indicated by the following excerpt from the text: “In a small 
sandy copse about half a mile from the South Ferry, Brooklyn; 
the only known locality of the plant in the State. It was first 
detected there by the late Dr. C. W. Eddy, in the year 1806.” 
All traces of the species were long ago obliterated on Long 
Island; and Staten Island now represents its only known locality 
north of southern Pennsylvania. 
Exactly when and by whom it was first found on Staten Island 
does not appear to be definitely recorded. It was credited to “ Dr. 
Allen” [Dr. Timothy F. Allen], in 1867, in Gray’s Manual; * and 
-in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden are three 
specimens, labeled respectively “Toad Hill, New Dorp, Staten 
Island, T. F. Allen” [no date] ; “ Toad Hill, New Dorp, Staten 
Island, with Dr. T. F. Allen” [no date, and no name of collector] ; 
Pe AanUn OrmVVillianl ke eggvett.) Coll, i. EF. Allen) “Loc: 
Staten Island, 1864”; but an interesting fact is that it was prob- 
ably Mr. August R. Grote, at one time a resident of Staten Island, 
who was the first to discover and identify the plant, locally. This 
5A Catalogue of the Plants Growing Spontaneously within Thirty Miles 
of the City of New York [commonly cited as ‘“ Torrey Catalogue ”’], p. 51. 
1819. 
6A Flora of the State of New York, etc., by John Torrey. Nat. Hist. 
New York, pt. 2 Botany, vol. 1, p. 6, pl. 1. Albany 1843. 
“Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, etc., by Asa 
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