Thunbert's list of Amphitropical Disjuncts
Thunbert, C. P. 1784. Flora Japonica. I. G. Mulleriano, Leipzig.


Sanicula canadensis L.
Viburnum dentatum L.
Sambucus canadensis L.
Lilium canadensis L.
Lilium philadelphicum L.
Aesculus pavia L.
Saururus cernuus L.
Asarum canadense L.
Asarum virginicum L.
Juglans nigra L.
Arum dracontium L.
Arum triphyllum L.
Magnolia glauca L.
Clematis virginiana L.
Teucrium virginiana L.
Bignonia catalpa L.
Juniperus virginiana L.
Pinus strobus L.
Amorpha fruticosa L.
Adiantum pedatum L.

GRAY'S PUBLICATIONS

GRAY, A. 1840. Dr. Siebold, Flora Japonica; sectio prima. Plantas ornatui vel usui inservientes; digessit Dr. J. G. Zuccarini: fasc. 1-10, fol. (A review). Amer. J. Sci. 39: 175-176. (Reprinted in Graham, 1972b, and in Stuckey, 1978.)
---. 1846. Analogy between the flora of Japan and that of the United States. Amer. J. Sci. Arts 11. 2: 135, 136. (Reprinted in Graham, 1972, and in Stuckey, 1978.)
---. 1854. Introductory essay, in Dr. Hooker's Flora of New Zealand: Vol. I. Amer. J. Sci. Arts II. 17: 241-252, 334-350. (This constitutes a review by Gray of Hooker's essay.)
---. 1856. List of dried plants collected in Japan, by S. Wells Williams, Esq., and Dr. James Morrow. Pp. 305-332 in Narrative of the Expeditions of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years, 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States, Volume 2.
---. 1856, 1857. Statistics of the flora of the northern United States. Amer. J. Sci. Arts II 22: 204-232. 1856; 23: 62-84, 369-403. 1857. (Reprinted in Stuckey, 1978.)
---. 1859. Diagnostic characters of new species of phanerogamous plants collected in Japan by Charles Wright, Botanist of the U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition. (Published by request of Captain James Rodgers, Commander of the Expedition.) With observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of the Northern Temperate Zone. Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 377-452. (Reprinted in part in C. S. Sargent (editor), Scientific papers of Asa Gray 2: 122-141. 1889, and in Stuckey, 1978.)
---. 1860. Botany of Japan and its relations to that of Central and Northern Asia, Europe, and North America. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 4: 130-135. (This article constitutes the minutes of the 458th meeting of the Academy, 11 January 1859, at which Gray presented the second half of his "Diagnostic Characters" paper (Gray, 1859). The minutes record some of the dialogue between Gray and Agassiz.)
---. 1873a. Address of ex-president of the Association. Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 21: 1-31. (Reprinted as "Sequoia and its history." In C. S. Sargent (editor), Scientific papers of Asa Gray 2: 142-173. 1889, and in Stuckey, 1978.)
---. 1873b. Plants of the United States and Europe. J. Bot. 11: 173.
---. 1878. Forest geography and archeology. Amer. J. Sci. 16: 85-94, 183-196. (Reprinted in C. S. Sargent (editor), Scientific papers of Asa Gray 2: 204-233. 1889, and in Stuckey, 1978. This article was also appended in reprinted form to Gray and J. D. Hooker's "The vegetation of the Rocky Mountain region and a comparison with that of other parts of the world," Bull. U.S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Territories 6: 1-77. 1880.)

LINKS:

D. E. Boufford and S. A. Spongberg
Eastern Asian - Eastern North American Phytogeographical Relationships - A History From The Time of Linnaeus To The Twentieth Century
ANN. MISSOURI BOT. GARD. 70: 423-439. 1983.
http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/novon/eaena.htm

Qiu-Yun Xiang, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela. S. Soltis, Steven, R. Manchester, and Daniel J. Crawford.
Timing the Eastern Asian-Eastern North American Floristic Disjunction: Molecular Clock Corroborates Paleontological Estimates
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Vol. 15, No. 3, June, pp. 462-472, 2000
http://www4.ncsu.edu:8030/~qyxiang/Papers/XiangSoltis2000.pdf

Ronald Sluys
EXPLANATIONS FOR BIOGEOGRAPHIC TRACKS ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN: A challenge for paleogeography and historical biogeography
http://www.bio.uva.nl/ib201/IB201/DATA/Browse%20by%20subject/Lecture%20notes/Biogeographic%20tracks.doc