PLANTS SEEN AT PRAIRIE DU CHIEN IN 1824-1826: NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF DR. EDWIN JAMES

摘要

Dr. Edwin James, botanist of the 1820 Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army Medical Department in January 1823. The following November, he was assigned to Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien in what is today Crawford County, Wisconsin, where he spent the next three years. When not occupied with medical duties, he studied the local flora, recording in his personal diary notes on plants seen in the area. This diary, which has never been published, was examined and all botanical notes made during James' tenure at Fort Crawford compiled. The resulting list of taxa he noted there comprises 53 species, including four naturalized European ruderals and three natives that had not yet been named or described when James saw them.