76 jYuttallia digitata.
rendered the botany of North America, in the cultivation of which his
zeal and perseverance have enriched our Flora with many new and
rare plants, and given honour to his own name. It is with real pleasure,
therefore, I avail myself of the opportunity of testifying my sense
of the value of his discoveries, and the obligation American botanists
are under to him for his indefatigable investigation of our vegetable
treasures. The seeds of a second species have been sown in the gardens
of this city, from which I expect the pleasure of presenting a figure
and description—and Mr. Nuttall has informed me, he saw a third in
the Arkansa Territory, but did not collect the seeds.
Fig. 1. Represents the upper part of a flowering portion.
2. A radical leaf, with five inches of the petiole cut off.
3. A cauline leaf, with two inches of the petiole cut away.
(All the size of nature.)
