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15. Nov. 1814. 610 — 628
[postmark] LANCAR.P 25 NOV PAID 16 Stephen Elliott Esquire Charleston. S. Carolina Franco
Lancaster Nov 15, 1814
Dear Sir
With great pleasure I acknowledge your letter dated Oct. 30, 1814 it has added much to my information. Atriplex we have not near Lancaster but I have seen it from NYork and Boston. 199, 435, 605 I wish to see again my specimens are imperfect. N. 230 is not our Hyoseris amplexicaulis and if the semen is nudum no Hyoseris ut alt Asteres and Solidagines will remain in dubis untill we have an opportunity to compare our herbaria. The Asteres Michaux has pretty generally, the Solidagines by some mistake he has left to a future day. I will thank you very much for your opinion of the numbers which you have sent hitherto. You are a better judge of Sarracenia. I have seen only one alive. Catesby plant left hand I have seen from different places it is variolaris Mx lacunosa Bartram, adunca Donn, Baldwin 1146. minor Walter? You gave me formerly the name. The plant of Mr. Van Vleck probably the same of Mr. McBride. Seems to me Catesby; 69,b. right hand, this has been thought flava L. and flava figured in Hill, but my flava figured by Jacquin seems, some times a red some times a yellow flower? rubra Walter, and might then be Baldwins 926. purpurea Walter and Van Vlecks plant flava Walter, and which Mx [psittic?]
In looking over my specimens I find a few were dropped in the hurry of printing and a few have changed the names according to the given names. [ Phascum subulatum dropped by mistake — cuspidatum — carinatum Swarz Sphagnum cymbifol [cymbifolium] — Latifolium Grimmia pilosa — pilifera C. Pensylv. alior. — apocarpa — alpicola al: Pterigonium intricatum — dropped by mist. Dicranum orthocarpa — var. of heteromallum Polytrichum commune — yuccifolium Orthotrichum pusillum — cupulatum Swarz Timmia megap. [megapolitana] — cucullata Mx. Bartramia pomif [pomiformis] — oederiana et crispa 2 Mnium caespit. [caespiticium] — Bryum — Serrulatum H — marginatum — pseudotrig H — ventricosum Hypnum reptile — dropped Fungermannia ciliaris — pulcherrima Lecidea rubescens — russula — gyrophoroides — Gyrophora papulosa Parmelia Turneri — Lecanora parella var. — paritina [parietina] dropped by mist. — virella — aquila Borrera furfuracea + exotic Cetraria glauca — ciliaris — nivalis + exotic Cenomyce gracilis + exotic Cornicularia aculeata + exotic Lichen fastigiatus [fastigiata] — Ramilina fast. [fastigiata] — barbalus — Usnea barbata dropped by mist. — punicens — Lecanora punicea and var? rubra — cincres fuseus — Lecanora russula — fageneus — Variolaria communis foramin — diatrypa + exotic sulphureus + exotic groenlandicus Ach. filiformis — (Baeomyces) Cenomyce bacillaris C.
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Lichen opegraphe [opegrapha] } Graphis Achar. densigratus — niveus + exotics pannosus — Lecidea sorediata cerinus — cerina droppd quercinus — Parmelia tiliacea 102 — Lecanora punicea 105 — dub.]
I have a great number of cryptog. not yet determined as many were imperfect and I had only lookd through our Penslyvania and thought to leave the second part of the Catalogue for a future day; several of my friends insisted on the whole. Probably I may get time to give a second edition or leave it to some other friend. Nothing would be more pleasing to me then to see your catalogue of Georgia and Caroline plants soon finished. You will have a good assistant in our excellent friend D. Baldwin. I am sorry that a number of his specimens are imperfect. Have you not discovered the true Allionia? The Thalia dealbata and caerulea it seems is cannaeformis [canniformis] Willd. — I never could get it in flower.
I was much pleased with your oration. The specimens came pretty safe although the cover was very near gone. [619 is a cospecies or variety of Cyperus flavescens. 620. new to me Briza? purpurascens 621. Plantago indeterminatea linearifolia — 622. Polygonum linifolium — common 623. habit of Hesperis verna — can it be Cardamine teres? 624. Cymbidium corallorhiz [corallorhiza] — at lease near figured in Plukenet 625. Viola concolor Cat. 626. Lemna minor? 627. Stemonitis fasciculata 628. Arabis bulbosa? folia radicalia desunt —]
Our mutual friend Mr. Collins is an excellent correspondent and favours me with his numerous discoveries in cryptogamous plants. D. Bigelow has sent num 236—425. Amongst them new for my herbarium [ Monarda fistulosa var. coccinea Curtis. Ribes rigens Galeopsis tetrahit probably C. Lobelia dortmanni [dortmanna] Utricularia cornuta larger and it seems different from a Jersey plant Vicia perhaps 2 species new or dubious to me]
He will prove to be an excellent correspondent when navigation opens. Besides this nothing new our way. Winter is a coming, provisions for a botanist become scarce, remember a distant friend who is all most disabled and can do but little more for the science. Let me hear often even a line from your hand is a feast to me.
With great esteem and affection I remain Dear sir Your most obedient Henry Muhlenberg
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10 April 1815
[postmark] LANCAR.P 3 APR PAID 10
Stephen Elliott Esq {Esquire} Charleston franco South Carolina
Lancaster April 10, 1815
Dear Sir
Your letter and packet dated Nov 11, 1814 arrived safe at Lancaster and gave me much pleasure. It was answered Nov 14 with the names of the specimens forwarded, and the former Musci and Lichenes and a number of queries. Hitherto no answer has arrived and I am anxious to hear from you and my former indefatigable correspondent our mutual friend D. Baldwain. You have had very turbulent times to the southward and can easily conceive how little time was left for other business. I have felt your uneasy situtation and congratulate you on the peace and the prospect of better times.
The first question will be, when we may see your catalogue of a flora Caroliniana and Georgia? I long to see it. Mr. Pursh has published his Flora. He has seen Walters herbarium with the Frazers, also Claytons and many others in England. Without doubt we shall see it soon in the bookstores here and you will be able to explain many dubious plants and new plants omitted by Walter and Pursh. Figures are given to more then 25 plants. You will oblige me very much by giving my your names.
Even many plants whose specimens you sent to me, remain anonymus, at least duboius. 47 Ephedra 219 Juncus, 230, 435, 442, 483. The Asteres and Solidagines will remain adversaries.
Now the exchange of dubious plants will be easier and our mutual friend, Zaccheus Collins, has offered to assist in receiving and for wanting packets between us. If you have any specimen to spare not mentioned in my Catalogue or dubious you will add much to the obligations I owe already to you by forwarding them with your names. Gramina and plantae calamaria remain my favorites.
D. Baldwin has favoured me with several but too often in letters so small that there was no certainty. In particular I wish Nyssa — Polygala, Phalangium — Fucus and Conferva I have been collecting but all in the dark for want of figures. When your get an answer from Mr. Turner I wish to see which Fuci should be added to an N American catalogue. My Elliottia I have only seen in your own specimen I think it still ng.
D. Bigelow is an excellent correspondent and full of vigour I recommend him to your notice as also my excellent friend Collins I know no Pennsylvania botanist equal to him. My health is something better then last year, writing and speaking rather difficult, reading not difficult.
Wishing you health and prosperity I remain with unchangeable
Sir, Your most obedient humble servant Henry Muhlenberg
