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“Gloster," or Gloucester, - County and held the office foi' 51 years. - -
The books don*t cbnUnent On his effectiveness as a clerk, } but it must not have been a 1 demanding job, for he roamed the state east of the Blue ? Ridge Mountains collecting and describing plants of the A New World, which he sent to be classified by Linnaeus, Sweden’s gift to the world of botany. . '' \..’i
Linnaeus created order out of botanical chaos through his Classification of plants. With the aid of another pioneer botanist, Linnaeus published "Flora Virginica” on the basis of John Clayton’s collection and vivid descriptions of Virginia plants. ^5 % 1b honor one of Virginia1*; great early botanists, the two Europeans napaed the tiny plant that has heralded spring,
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