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17th May 1813
515 — 557

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LANCAR. P
MAY PAID 25
Stephen Elliott
Esq {Esquire}
franco Charleston
S. Carolina

Lancaster May, 17, 1813

My dear Sir

I am happy to see by your last letter dated April 20 last, that you are
in good health and in a place of greater safety and where you find a
new field for observations. I am much pleased with it as I was almost afraid
of some accident. However I see that I have been also very backward
in writing to you. My last letters to were dated Dec. 3. and Jan. 15.

That the former has miscarried I am sorry to hear, it was directed to Beau-
fort and contained among others my observations on your last packet, for which
I again return my best thanks. As far as I can remember I will repeat what
I have written in that letter. After deploring the want of any safe opportunity to
send during those times a packet in return, I wished a speedy correspondence by
land on the plants mutually exchanged as many are still dubious especially the
Schoeni, Cyperi and Junci, of which I have unique specimens which I do not
venture to analyse. I enquired about my Elliottia qualis fructus. Mr. Lyon has
the plant living but in a very poor state, he says it is capsula like Azalea.
Is he right? I wished to have your opinion on the Asters you have sent to
me, whether you were certain of their specific names after more
conversation
with Mr. Le Conte and his brother who are said to have the greatest collection.

The names of your last plants I took to be according to a note in my journal
[ 515 Cyperus laminatus E. 84. glomeratus Walter vegetus Willden. probably
. 516 Melica (vaginis foliis q. pubescentibus) Variety? of my Speciosa, mutica Walter
517 Poa annua L
518 Poa glomerata Walter
. 519 Poa flexuosa Willd. MS, because Smith has a flexuosa already I propose autumnalis.
. 520 Briza eragrostis L.
521 Juncus gladiatus E. near subverticillatus
522 Juncus campestris
523 Phalaris (359) villosa?
524 Galium cuspidatum Willd MS. triflorum Mx.
525 Ludwigia pilosa
526 Menyanthes trachysperma (Sed minus Lacunosa)
527 Vitis
528 Fernla villosa Walt. Angelica triquinata Mx hirsuta Willd MS.
529 Oenanthe filiformis Walt. Linn teretifolium mihi
530 Cicuta maculata L. is it also Ligusticum actacifolium Mx ?
531 Chenopodium murale?
532 Euphorbia ipecacuanha
533 Euphorbia vix corollata magis paniculata
534 Clematis viorna
535 Thymbra caroliniana (199) Still dubious, Walters description differs. seeds wanting
536 Fumaria now Corydalis very near to aurea Willd
537 Hypericum angulosum and perhaps another
538 Gerardia tenuifolia foliis setaceris, pedunculis folio aequalibus, setacea Walter
539 Sonchus floridanus }
540 Lactuca (longifolia) } Specim. too imperfect
541 Lactuca (sagittifolia) }
542 Liatris 324. 427. ciliata or cylindirica, pilosa?
543 Conyza (Bacharis) [baccharis] foetida (99)
544 Erigeron bellidifolium Willd.
545 (and 151?) Aster umbellatus or cornifolius
546 Boltonia glassifolia. We have 3 spec. gl. aster. and one between
547 Silphium pumilum
548 Quercus falcata Mx —
549 Spartina polystachia [polystachya]
550 Ludwigia? Has it allways no Cor?