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8. April 1812
Phan: 391 — 469
Cryp: 84 — 133

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LANCAR. P 25
APR Elliott Esquire PAID
10
Stephen Elliott Esq {Esquire}
at
Beaufort
S. Carolina
franco

Lancaster April 8, 1812

My dear Sir

I am happy that your packet and letter dated Nov, 1811 have arrived at last
April 4, 1812. After condoling with you sincerely on the loss of your children
I beg you to receive my best thanks for the many and rare specimens you
sent. Some of them you had from your correspondents and are rather imperfect
but even fragments are wellcome when the plant is new.

As an opportunity offered for Philadelphia I made up immediately a packet
for you in return containing Numbers 401-500 very near only such as were mentio-
ned in your catalogue as desiderata, also Cryptogama 151-168 chiefly Sphacria
they all grow with us. If time had permitted more would have been added, but
all was done in haste and in one forenoon. I will continue to send plants men-
tioned in your catalogue and in a future letter make some observations on your
catalogue. Mr. Lyons put down a number of plants twice. What a pity it is that
Michaux changed the names so much and that American botanists communicate
their names so little to others. Acharii [Acharius, Erik] Prodromus is in the packet.

Since my last letter to you of March 13, I had the pleasure to receive a small packet
of Cryptogamia plants chiefly Mosses from our mutual friend D Baldwin, brought from
Savanna by M. Kin. I had likewise to see one of his pupils D. George Marshall who
is gone since to Caraccas and promises to send from thence whatever he finds re-
markable in their flora. Should the navigation be uninterrupted much good may
be done by him. Our spring here is rather late — the Anemone hepatica, Viola odora [odorata], Tussi-
lago farfara, Hydrocotyle bipinnata opened their flowers only April 3, and made the beginning

Your specimens I have looked through and I give you my opinion on them
as far as I am now able.
[ 319 X Utricularia cornuta — grows like many other southern plants also in the Jersies
X 392 Schoenus very near fuscus but seed differs —
X 393 Stipa I think new — melanocarpa might be its name. Persoon has 2 American Stipa virginica and avenacea.
394 X Comelina [Commelina] virginica L longifolia M. is here
X 395 Ludwigia can not be according to description microcarpa. cf. jussioides.
X 396 Ludwigia alternifolia L.
397 X Ophiorrhiza different from mitreota Swarz — folii ovatis — ovata or ovatifolia a good name
398 X Phlox carolina?
X 399 Lobelia either Claytoniana or pallida
400 X Asclepias cinerea W.
401 Asclepias laurifolia Mich.
402 X Sison pusillum M. is it Daucus divaricatus Walter?
403 Gentiana ochroleuca or saponaria M.
X 404 Hypoxis erecta L
405 Claytonia virg. [virginica] L.
406 X Alisma cordifolia [cordifolium], if the seeds agree — how are the seeds.
407 Euphorbia hypericifolia L. maculata Sprengel
408 Euphorbia corollata I think, we have it often floribus solitarius
X 409 Lythrum lineare Mich. also from Cherokee, is it virgatum Walter?
X 410 Prunus chicasa
X 411 Prunus — if the leaves are as you have added them it is not pumila L. but nearer to
X 412 Crataegus lucida
413 Rosa —
414 Nepeta virginica L? the flowers not quite so close as in my specimens and Michaux's fig.