An inaugural dissertation on the kalmia latifolia and angustifolia : submitted to the examination of the Reverend John Ewing, S.S.T.P. Provost, the trustees & medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 27th day of May, 1802, for the degree of doctor of medicine / by George G. Thomas.

  • Thomas, George G.
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1802
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the kalmia latifolia and angustifolia : submitted to the examination of the Reverend John Ewing, S.S.T.P. Provost, the trustees & medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 27th day of May, 1802, for the degree of doctor of medicine / by George G. Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The former is one of the Planue Borealcs, or northern plants of America, being (as far as I know) exclusively confined to the northern statej, as Canada, and to the Island of Newfoundland. This species, though it is only of late that it has been publicly described by L'Heriticr, Aiton, and some other Botanists, was well known to the celebrated Sebastian Vaillant, many years ago.* The Kalmia hirsuta or ciliata, is a very deli- cate little species of this Genus, for the discovery of which we are indebted to Mr. William Bartram. It is a native of Georgia and other Southern parts of the United-States, and has not hitherto, been found in any of the middle or northern parts of the union. PLACE. The Genus Kalmia, which was so named by the celebrated Linnaeus, in honour to one of his most respectable and industrious pupils, the late Mr. Peter Kalm, is arranged by the Swedish Na- turalist in the Xth class and 1st order of his sex- ual system, the class and order Decandria Mono- gynia. In his work on the natural orders of * Doctor James Edward Smith.