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Describing The Flora Of The United States: Botanies At Libraries In Syracuse, Dudley J. Raynal
Describing The Flora Of The United States: Botanies At Libraries In Syracuse, Dudley J. Raynal
The Courier
The first written descriptions of the flora of North America were those of sixteenth-century Europeans who marvelled at the botanical treasures brought to them by explorers of the New World. The earliest account of American natural history was that of the English botanical explorer Thomas Hariot who wrote his Briefe and True Re, port of the New Found Land of Virginia in 1590 after returning from an expedition arranged by Sir Walter Raleigh. Hariot carried to En, gland tubers, fruits, and seeds of plants previously unknown in Europe. Perhaps thirty different plant species had been introduced into Europe from the …