JUDICIARY.

The Judiciary consists of a chief justice, an attorney-general, six associate judges, and forty-three district judges.

The salary of the chief-justice is four thousand dollars per annum; that of the associate judges, three thousand five hundred each; that of the district judges, from a thousand to two thousand dollars.

The Supreme Court has a clerk, and district attorney, and marshal in each State. In thirteen of the States there is also a commissioner of loans.

The secretary of the Treasury Department has a salary of five thousand dollars. There are five or six clerks, whose salary is from one to three thousand dollars. The Treasury Department has different divisions or offices; that of the Comptroller, Auditor, Treasurer, Register, and General Land Office. The first has fourteen clerks, whose salary is from seven hundred and fifty to sixteen hundred and fifty dollars. The second, thirteen clerks, whose salary is from six hundred to four

teen hundred and fifty dollars: The third, four, with a like salary. The fourth, sixteen clerks, with a salary from five hundred to sixteen hundred and ninety; and the last, ten, with a salary from eight hundred to sixteen hundred; besides an allowance for extra services.

The salary of the Secretary of the War Department is four thousand five hundred dollars. The number of clerks is fortythree, with a salary from three hundred and sixty-nine to two thousand dollars each.

The salary of the Secretary of the Navy is four thousand five hundred dollars.

The Post Master General has a salary of two thousand dollars. The number of clerks in this department is eighteen, with a salary from two hundred and thirty-six to sixteen hundred dollars each.

The salary of a Minister Plenipotentiary is nine thousand dollars a year, besides a similar sum for an outfit. The salary of a Secretary of Legation is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

American Consuls have no other compensation than the fees of office, and the com

mercial profits which it procures, except those of the Levant, and at Paris, and London, whose pay is two thousand dollars a

year.

In the following Catalogue of Plants, etc. the generic Latin and English names are in Italic; the specific, in Roman print.

ABBREVIATIONS.

L. Linnæus.-Schr. Schreber.-Muhl. Muhlenberg. -W. Wildenow.-M. Michaux.-Ait. Aiton.

FLORULA COLUMBIANA,

Sive enumeratio Plantarum in Territorio Columbia sponte nascentium;

OR,

CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS, SHRUBS, AND TREES, WHICH GROW SPONTANEOUSLY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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THIS Catalogue contains only the specimens which I was able to collect in a few excursions through this district, and consequently is far from being complete. The collection, however, has acquired value, from being examined by the celebrated Botanist; Correa de Serra, to whose generous friendship on this, as on other more important occasions, I feel deeply indebted. The establishment of a Botanical Garden in the District of Columbia, besides the pleasure it would afford to those who cultivate this science, could not fail of being highly advan

tageous to the medical, veterinary, economical, and manufacturing arts. Of this no one

can doubt who has perused the works of Marshal', Barton, Michaux3, and Castiglioni, in which the properties and uses of the vegetable productions of the United States are particularly explained.

Arum. Indian Turnip. Virginicum. Virginia.

Tawho, or Tawhill of the Indians. The roots of the arum, when roasted or boiled, lose their acrid taste, and afford an agreeable nutriment. The Indians cover them with a layer of earth, on which a large fire is kept up until they are completely roasted. Hogs are very fond of this root.

Achillea. Yarrow, or Milfoil.

Species injured, and not determined.

1

Arbustum Americanum, of which a French translation, by Lezermes, appeared at Paris, in 1788.

2

Collections for a Materia Medica, etc.

3 Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de L'Amerique Septentrionale, 3 vols. in 8vo. 1813, Paris.

4 Osservazioni sui Vegetabili piu utili degli Stati Uniti, in the second volume of the Author's Travels in the United States-Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale, Milan, 1790.