or with a slight tinge of yellow. The bark and fruit, on incision, gives out a milky sap; that of the fruit
aromatic, but not agreeable to the taste. Although found spontaneous and abundant on the immediate borders
of Red River, I cannot learn that any individual has ever seen or tasted its ripe fruit. These, according to the
report of Major Long (v. his Narrative, 2. p. 158.), are quite as large as those of the Shaddock Tree, yellow, and
very beautiful to the eye, but in his opinion always unpleasant to the taste. As to their being juiceless, (an
assertion made by this Narralor), the very name of Osage Orange, independent of my own testimony, ought to
have qualified the contradiction.
“ From two or three of the fruit which I described, as seen growing in Mr. Choteau’s garden at St. Louis,
in 1810, I expressed about half a pint of a milky sweetish fluid, which, unlike most lactescent saps, quickly
separated into a clear liquid and a subsiding feculent matter, almost appearing like the action of coagulation
in milk. I mention this fact, merely to show that the fruit is not hard and dry, as stated by Mr. James. Indeed
from all I can yet learn, the state of the ripe fruit is entirely unknown.
4‘ The wood is so completely like that of the Fustick (Morns Tinctoria) that it would be difficult to tell
them apart; it is equally useful as a yellow die, and its strength recommends it to the natives for bows.
“ North of Red River I have never seen it, except in one locality 12 miles south of Fort Smith on the
Arkansa.”
EXPLANATION OF TAB. 12.
A. A. Branches.
B. Portion of a Branch with the Female Catkin.
C. Male Flowers.
D. D. Male Flowers, separate.
E. Young Fruit.
F. Section of the same, shewing the disposition of the Seeds.
G. A full grown Fruit.
APPENDIX
BY Mr. DON,
COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE
LAMBERTIAN HERBARIUM.
T he L ambertian H erbarium is arranged according to the Linnaean System, in cabinets, after the
excellent plan of the Banksian Herbarium. Each species is glued on a single half sheet of stout folio
writing paper. The species are then placed in a whole sheet of the same paper, on which is written the
name of the genus, as well as the number corresponding with the general Index of the Herbarium.
In regard to the trivial name, reference is always made to the latest edition of the Species Plantarum,
and such as are not contained in that work, are referred to the authors who first described them.
This collection has, at different times, been enriched by the contributions of men eminent for science:
the Proprietor has spared neither pains nor expense to render it as complete as possible; and the whole cannot
be estimated at less than thirty thousand species, among which are several thousands yet unpublished.
In consequence of the arrangement already mentioned, any new accession is necessarily separated as soon
as received; and the specimens put in those respective departments in the Herbarium which their classification
assigns to them: but the following are the chief sources from whence the collection has been formed
1. Mr. Lambert’s own Herbarium of indigenous plants found in England and Ireland.
2. A collection of specimens purchased at the sale of the Duchess of Portland’s Museum; this included
some interesting Cape plants and other exotics.
3. A large collection of plants collected at the Cape, Madeira, and Teneriffe, by Mons. Labillardiere:
these were taken by an English ship of war, in 1798, and purchased by Mr. Lambert.
4. All that part of the Herbarium of the celebrated Mr. Hudson, which contained his Cryptogamia: this
was purchased by Mr. Lambert, and formed an extensive collection of indigenous and exotic Lichens,
Mosses, and Fuci, but unarranged: also some other scarce indigenous plants collected by Hudson
in his last journey to the West of England, and a parcel of the seeds of Vella annua, which he was
said to have found near Stonehenge.
5. The greater part of the Earl of Bute’s collection of Swiss plants, purchased at the sale of his library.
This collection was made by M. Garcin, and contained fine specimens of most of the plants of Switzerland,
with many duplicates.
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