(seq. 19)

22. June 1812
Phan. 47 — 514
Crypt. 134 — [14]8

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LANCAR.P PAID
JUN
23
Stephen Elliott Esq. {Esquire}
at Beaufort
S. {South} Carolina
franco

Lancaster Jun 22, 1812

My dear Sir

I had the pleasure to receive your last packet by Mr. Merkel
on a visit in Philadelphia together with 2 bundles of cryptogamous plants from Doctors Bald-
win and Boyken from Milledgeville in Georgia. These kept me pretty well en-
gaged with a number of plants I had gathered on the same visit in the
Jersies, at McMahons botanic garden and from the herbarium of an ex-
cellent naturalist Mr. Zacchaeus Collins at Philadelphia.

Just when I had looked over your packet and I was preparing an answer
your instructive letter from Savanna Jun 9. arrived and was very wellcome.
Probably you will find at Beaufort not only my acknowledgement of your
former packet with my observations, but also n. 400—500, Cryptog. n. 151—168.
which went from Philadelphia by vessel to Charleston April 14, 1812, the
letter was sent by mail April 12.

When ever you go to Georgia again pray inform me of the time and whether
I shall address to Savanna the letters I write to you. Ars longa vita brevis is
the old and true saying and I sincerely wish our correspondence may be uninter-
rupted.

You put several queries to me concerning plants I had from our mutual friend
D. Brickell and Mr. Enslen. I have looked over my journals and find short
notices of Sept. 4, 1804.
[78. Helianthemum NS. ramuliflorum Mich. 92. Aira pallens the same with Schrebers navi-
cularis probably a variety of your N. 24 and 218 Avena palustris Mich. with out awns.
108. Scutellaria indica B. my elliptica, or your 508.
106. Erigeron acre B. nudicaulis M
148. Carex panicea B. near flacca verrucosa Schkuhr your N. 215.
162. Malope or Malva flor. caerul. folius trifidis from Enslin — Specimen imperfectum
169. Cistus angustifol. Helianthemum carolinianum
154.Scirpus mucronulatus
Jan. 4. 1805.
3. Vaccinium sempervirens Br. myrsinites Mich.
7. Cyperus uniflorus Br. gracilis mihi maculatus Elliot 453
9. Aristida americana, panicula cortracta n. 360 E.
12. Phalaris like Stipa diffusa is Andropogon ambiguus Mich.
30. Panicum uniflorum now my pungens n. 355, E
26. Cyperus culmo palmari — is new to me, specimen very bad
Ludwigia cartaligenea B. is capitata Mich.
April 22, 1805
Malope foliis trifidis ut supra
Orchis aphylla Br. gracilis mihi it has 1 or 2 folia cordata.
Jan 1806
Cynosurus virgatus aff. is Eleusine filiformis
Apr. 10, 1806
9. Cyperus canaliculatus, probably flavicomus
15. Panicum flexuosum Br. paniculas ramis verticillatus flexuosis
14. Cyperus stoloniferus Br. — Specimen too bad
45. Polygonum cordifolium, is hardly different from orientale
71. Carex polygama, buxbaumii Willd.
Ruellia lactea Br. is your n. 305
Ophrys cordata — convallarioides Willd.
Sept. 10, 1806.
Glycine — H. Ensling had it also, it dies in winter with us, probably
a variety of Phaseolus helvotus Mich
March 22, 1808 I suppose Enslin had mixed 2 plants, the flower was Ascyrum, the plant
entirely monnieria amplexcaulis Mich. I had the plant living a short time in
my garden but the soil was too dry.]

How imperfectly can we judge from dried specimens only!
I now make a trial of naming the plants in your last packet and beg you to correct,
whatever you think is wrong. When you send plants not yet described pray send if possi-
ble two specimens, one to be analyzed the other to be laid in the herbarium. Uniques
I am afraid to touch often — but to the purpose :