'Box put on board the Vittoria at sea in the Gulf of Florida'
Information
Title
'Box put on board the Vittoria at sea in the Gulf of Florida'
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
RHS/Col/2/3/10
Date
30 Nov 1822
Scope & content
List of plants sent by George Don from the Gulf of Florida to England
This item was previously enclosed in RHS/Col/2/1/3; it was removed during cataloguing and placed with RHS/Col/2/3/1-14
Includes a species of Catasetum ('flowered on board'), Epidendrum from Grand Cayman [Cayman Islands], four different Amaryllis from Maranham [Maranhao, Brazil], Swietenia mahagoni from Trinidad [Trinidad and Tobago], about 30 species of Epidendrum from Jamaica, and a head of a curious variety of Indian corn [here the list includes 13 more plants]
For another version of the list in George Don's journal, 30 Nov 1822, see RHS/Col/2/1/5