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27. Aug: 1810.

Stephen Elliott PAID
Stephen Elliot Esq {Esquire}
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LANCAR. P Stephen
Aug
27
Stephen
Stephen Beaufort
S. Carolina
franco Stephen Elliott

Cal: simplex 8 phyl: foliol aequalibus ovalibus obtesis
tomentosus

Stephen Stephen
Stephen

Lancaster Aug. 27, 1810

Dear Sir

After a s sore spell of Rheumatism I hasten to acknowledge the receipt
of your kind letter dated June 29, 1810, for which I return you my
sincere thanks. By Capt. Serrit I sent you a fresh packet containing
numbers 201—300 all phanerogamous plants excepting our Filices which
on account of their size I have added. As Captain Serrit has returned
they have arrived at least at Charleston and I hope long before this
at Beaufort. We have to compare still a great number of shrubs and
trees, especially Salix, Smilax and Prunus. Of Adelia and Planera I have
no specimen, the Quercus and Pinus of Walter I can not distinguish
clearly. Any specimen of them with your observations will be very well-
come. The promised Asclepias incarnata, Plantago caroliniana, Polygonum
hirsutum, Cleome pentaphylla Walter and all Gramina and Cyperaceae will
be a pleasing acquisition to my herbarium.

[Your Carex 205 and 45 are certainly different, but still I would rather
take 45 for triceps and 205 for curta Michaux not L. Perhaps I shall in
a short time be more certain of it as I have written to Paris on Ac-
count of Michaux's Carices. His descriptions are too short.

Has 219 any leaves? Your specimen is rather young. Pray send another
I have seen your Podalyria 119 o or 19, c. o. is that your bracteata — it
would be a good name.
121. I have entered in my jounral as Solidago virgata not 17, o but 61.
17, o is according to my journal your 130 new, which grows very well
in my garden from Georgia seeds and is no native with us.
141 is according to Smith the original undulatus L. not of Willdenow nor
Aiton who named another one undulatus viz. the diversifolius Mich.
Linne was not exact in adding his synonyms. It hardly differs from
amplexicaulis Mich. and patens Aitoni.
142. Aster is certainly a NS. I have lately received the same from Mr. Spren-
gel at Halle by the name of Aster sphacelatus Willdenow described in
his Enumeratio plantar. Horti Berol.
I agree with you that Aster and Solidago are very superficially de-
scribed and wonder to find so few in Michaux. Sprengel sent me 22 Asteres
from the botanical garden at Halle all N American but very few of which
I had seen before. My Aster cordifolius L. according to Smith n. 344.
was named heterophyllus Willd. My Solidago flexicaulis L. according to Smith
n. 360 caesia Aiton. Aster sparsiflorus Willd. I could not distinguish from
cordifolius Michaux and foliolosus Aiton.
my multiflorus.
165. Your specimen is too young and a unique. Pray compare Helianthus
atrorubens.
199. Thymbra. I wish very much to have another specimen with flowers and
frutification, which were lost in my specimen.
Looking over my journal some queries arise which I propose to you
Is your 76, o the same with your 126 new? Your 77 o the same with 131 N?
What is your 101, b. o? What genus is your 111 o?
218 o Vicia what colour has the living corolla?
Observations continued on your specimens

7. Salsota from Virginy seeds has caulem procumbentem in shady places.
13. Linnaeus has joined by mistake 2 different species under the name of Verbena nodi-
flora.
112 has been lately described by Sprengel under the name of Scirpus lupulinus, I
would prefer cyperiformis.
116 is very near Scirpus argenteus according to the description
166 is this Physalis different from angulata Walter? I wish much to see the fruit.
235. The Stamina and pistilla are wanting. The habit is much of Arenaria
rubra L. which grows in the Jersies.]