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1. Dec. 1812
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LANCAR 25
DEC PAID
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Stephen Elliott Esquire
Beaufort
franco S. Carolina

Lancaster Dec 1, 1812

Sir

Your long expected packet n. 515—557 was at last delivered to me
a few days ago, and I hasten to thank you for it and to make some
observations on the specimens although I would have seen rather before my
two letters answered dated Oct 5 and Nov. 13, which I hope have come
to your Hands before this. In those letters you will have found what-
ever I thought worthy of notice.

Your numbers in the last packet were:
[515 C. [Cyperus] nearly allied to virens Michaux but distinct. It is your former 84. Willde-
now describes one in his Enumeratio Horti reg. Berol. Vegetus and cites as
Syn. glomeratus Walter. I have a garden specimen of this vegetus very like
515 only something larger. Is our plant also monandrus?
516. Melica speciosa Willd. not as large as with us. We have 2 cospecies the one
foliis vaginisque pubscentibus the other glabris, the latter is more common in
Cherokee.
517. Poa annua L.
518. Poa unlike all I have from Europe, probably glomerata Walter.
519. Poa flexuosa Willd. MS. the name must be changed because there is an already
described flexuosa different. Our brevifolia praecox is much like it but 519
flowers late if my information is good. Habitat Virg. Car. Cherokee
520. Is it most more then a variety of the Briza eragrostis which has commonly
more florets but is very like in all habit. It ought to be classed amongst the
Poas.
521. [℈?] as 274. is I think polycephalus M. crassifolius certainly distinct from nodosus.
We have one very much alike, which Willdenow named verticillatus but I have lost my marked specimens and am now in doubt.
522. [℈?] the specimen rather bad comes nearest to compestris.
523. Phalaris villosa M. specimen plainer then the former 359.
524. Galium cuspidatum Willd MS. triflorum Mx.
525. Ludwigia, pilosa Walt. vera it seems, his description is rather short. It grows also in
the Jersies.
526. Menyanthes is it different from trachysperma Mich.
527. Vitis vulpina L. the specimen not clear to say whether cordifolia or rotundifolia Mich
528. Angelica hirsuta Willd Ms. triquinata Mich. In Herbar L. sub A. sylvestris — I
allways took it for Walter F. villosa and Greenways Cicuta venenosa.
529. Oenanthe filiformis Walter. exactly. It has the seeds of Sium integer? rigidius L.
and comes near to Sium filiforme L. in description. Has it allways simple leaves?
530. Cicuta maculata L. the root is poisonous. Is it also Ligustrum
[atae?]ifolium
Mich? Do you know Walters Cicuta perennans floribus luteis?
531. Chenopodium, uncertain, near to murale
532. Euphorbia ipecacuanhae L.
533. Euphorbia more paniculated then our corollata and others.
534. Clematis viorna.
535. Thymbra Walter very different from Thymus car. [carolinianus] Mich — The same as 535. It
was the plant mentioned amongst Dr. Baldwins drawings n. 21.
536. Fumaria next to auroa Willd Enum — I have it also from Cherokee and Canada.
537. Hypercium. We have 2 cospecies one with foliis er. abbreviatis, the other foliis
longioribus — Hitherto I took both for angulosum Mich. and Willd
538. Gerardia tenuifolia Vahl. I distinguish the 3 nearly allied spec. so:
1, pedunculo foliis breviore — purpurea L. foliis fascie
2, pedunculo foliis aequali — tenuifolia V. caule suffrutic.
3, pedunculo foliis longiore, erecta M. caule tenui paniculato.
539. Sonchus floridanus L. the variety with ovate simple leaves.
540. Lactuca longifolia Mich. seems to me different from our elongata tho this va-
ries very much.
541. Lactuca. The specimen very poor hardly different from
540
542. probably 427, 324. pilosa Aiton, ciliata Walter cylindrica Mich. Am I right?
Your specimen had white flowers. Was this from age? the gramini folii Willd has
a stem not hairy
543. Conyza. 99. seems to me different from the Conyza camphorata (Erigeron L.). The
latter is annual, your 543 probably ♃. and Conyza marilandica Mich, Bacharis
foetida Walter. Your 543 I have from Columbia US. caule orgyali, the camphorata
remains a small plant — pedalis,
544. Erigeron bellidifolius Willd.
545. — is it not your 151. After umbellatus Ait. amygd. Mich. cf. etiam Senecio ciliatus Walter