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[fold]470 Gratiola virginica. How nearly Gratiola and Lindernia aree allied!
x 471 Tripterella, I prefer caerulea — the capitata I have from N Car.
472 Comelina [Commelina] different fr. 2 others here the virg. [virginica] L. and caroliniana Willd. — it is near communis
473 Cyperus phymatodes Willd. MS.
474 Cyperus erythrorhizos mihi, the same as n. 452, is it the strigosus Mich. nec Linn?
x 475 Scirpus I think NS.
476 Scirpus growing with us, near palustris
477 Fuirena, how does it differ from squarrosa n. 367?
x 478 Panicum, which I see for the first time, unique.
479 Panicum mihi strigosum, very different from capillare
480 Panicum grossario [grossarium] affine I had from Enslin
481 Panicum, I doubt between scoparium and pubescens Mich. I had it before, also in the Jersies
x 482 Paspalum paniculatum Walter comes nearer then membr. [membranaceum]not panic Gaertner, mucronatum
x 483 Specimen without perfect spiculae, new to me, no Panicum
484 [Ce]ntunculus, I can not distinguish from a specimen of minimus Wild.
x 485 [loss] probably Ammi different in size from capillaceum, and majus
x 486 Specimen too imperfect, flower of a new Asclepias — nectariis inflexis S. arcuatis
487 Juncus near acutus
488 Juncus variety of tenuis, we have both varieties.
489 Euphorbia probably the same which D. Baldwin found with a red flower Mart 28. NS.
x 490 Crataegus hardly the real punctata.
491 [?]pila virginica L.
492 the same — Pycnanthemum aristatum Mich.
493 Trifolium repens L. a native
494 Trifolium reflexum L.
x 495 new Aster — I took it for an Inula, but to colour of radius is gone, liatroides
496 Betula nigra L. lanulosa Mich
497 Carex — Seems to me something different from folliculata L. has it not some time a lower
very long peduncle?
x 498 Ilex angustifolia Willd? according to his description in Hort. Berol
499 Ilex angustifolia Duhamel, ligustrina W Hamilton, myrtifolia Mich. Am I right?
500 Prinos ambiguus
x 501 Juglans aquatica Mich. fil? new to me. Has it a bitter fruit?
502 Sisymbrium amphibium L.
503 Lobelia inflata L.
504 Holcus lanatus L
505 Stellaria pubera Mich. Your 292 I found lately. I think it to be Stellaria alsine
506 Saxifraga vernalis Willd — nivalis L. but different from the European nivalis
507 Mimulus ringens, very common here
508 Scutellaria elliptica mihi, ovalifolia Persoon very little different from pilosa M.
509 Ranunculus hirtus Willd MS — hispidus Mich.
510 Oenothera fruticosa L. my 475
511 Polygala incarnata L
512 Polygala verticillata L very common a, white flower b, reddsih fl.
513 Cynoglossum officinale L my 436
514 Rhus aromaticum [aromatica] —

I mark such as were new to me and I wish to have again for closer examination with [f?]
To D. Baldwin at St. marys I write a letter in answer to his different packets he
sent from Charleston and Savanna. The later were chiefly Cryptogama, some are
new and have no name as yet, some you sent already in your former and last
packet — Here I will add your last numbers
x134 — only one flower without a peristomen, uncertain what it is.
135 Neckera heteromalla Hedw
136 Pterigynandrum hirtellum H.
137 Neckera seductrix H

x 138 Trematodon Mich. certainly Dieranum [Dierama] ambiguum Hedw, although Mx [?enus] it.
139 Bryum argenteum
140 Mnium caespiticium
141 Mnium bicolor
142 Funaria? Specimen too young
143 Funaria muhlenbergii Hedw.
144 Webera nutans Hedw
x 145 Bartramia radicalis Beauvois, longifolia Mich
146 Leskea, sent already
147 Hypnum tenax Hedw?
148 Clavaria cornicul. [corniculata] affin. ]
From Doctor Baldwin I expect much. He is indefatigable. If he only keeps his
health and returns is safety. He praises D. Boyken at Milledge Ville a [loss]
Mr. Persoon has written to me lately from Paris, that our D. Barton [loss]
him to publish in a short time a Flora Caroliniana! I am sure [text loss]
is more capable to do that then yourself, do not let us want too [loss]
A travelling friend related to me the numerous cures a certain Georgia [loss]
made at the Mississippi and all over the country. The plant is known [loss]
by the name of black root, pray what is it? Can it be a Collinsonia [loss]
only the canadensis a very valuable plant — I wish to see the praecox [loss]

Hardly can I ever venture from Lancaster, else I would accept of [loss]
ly offer and visit you at Beaufort — In spirit I am often with you [loss]
Since war is declared between the U.S. and Great Britain I am afraid [loss]
ding of packets will be unsafe, o let not our land — correpsondence be [loss]
I shall do my best to send whatever I can do.

With unchangeable esteem and my best respects to Mrs. Elliot I remain
dear Sir
Your most obedient servant and [loss]
Sincere friend
Henry Muhlenberg.

P.S There is a little room. I may add what I have done since my last letter [loss]
1, I have seen a collection of Natchez plants from Mr. Henry Moore, among them were [loss]
Hopea tinctoria, yellow dye Illicium floridanum Stinking Bush, Hydrophyllum pumilus NS, La[loss]
cirrhis diphyllis pumilus, NS Pachysandra, Rosa NS — Melia, 2 species
2. I had the pleasure of a visit from an 'excellent' botanist Corria de Serra [Correia da Serra] from Portu[gal]
who is come from Paris and a very scientific gentleman, with whom I [overtu?] [loss]
my herbarium. I have seen him since in Philadelphia.
4. Several letters came from D. Baldwin in one was a calendarium from Febr. 21 till Mar. [loss]
the difference between Flint River and Lancaster is very great, commonly 2 months.
5. At last an answer from Professor Peck in Massachusets, he sent plants from the Wh[ite]
Mountains in N Hampshire, Enpetrum nigrum, Diapensia lapponica, Andromeda caerulea [loss]
a procumbent Salix, Azalea lapponica
6. Letters from Persoon mentioning that Mr. Bosk has described in the Berlin Transactions a
number of our Phalli, Clathri, Lycoperdon, Peziza
7. Mr. Ellicot has returned and brought of minerals plenty especially from Table Mountain
granit [granite], amphilolit [Amphibolite] — Table Mountain is 1600 feet above Saluda and a spur of the Blue Ridge.
8. a journey to Carlisle — Professor Cooper has an excellent collection of American and other Mi-
nerals which he shows and explains with pleasure. Nothing of botany in Dickinson College.
9. Journey to Philadelpha. Zacch. Collins. a warm friend to botany, a real Elliot was com-
municative, went with me to the Jersies and McMahon, the Schulkil [Schuylkill] Falls — [loss] the Jersies
Aira praecox L. for the first time, Prinos laevigatus and some southern plants. Mr. Pratts gar-
den in excellent order rich in exotics chiefly for the stomach — Lyons in England, W. Hamil-
ton incapable of conversation and dead for the publick — D. Barton not willing to be
seen — McMahon's botanical garden a real acquisition to our country.
10. a number of Cherokee and Mississippi plant have vegetated in my garden where I may expect
to find something new, on my excursions in the neighborhood of Lancaster I find nothing new
for me.
11. I have seen Michauxs continuation of Forest Trees — new to me are Quercus oliviformis,
Juglans aquatica Water bitternut Hickory from the southward, Juglans myristiciformis fr. Charles T.
Betual lutea,
12, I have seen Willdenows filices, nothing new to me from America, his Azolla caroliniana
I had from the northern lakes.
How glad I would be to have an extract of your discourses and observations.
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