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4 Vid. Letter Jun Nov. 3. 07 Remarks on ye mode of publishing future papers to the A. Acad. —
Fowl-meadow Grass is supposed where to be ye Poa trivialis
Trifolium pratense, you say, is generally sowed for hay — it is so here — but ye great part of our hay is raised from lands where grazed ye greater part of ye year, & consists of different species of ye Gramina, properly so called, intermixed with other weeds as Leontodon Taraxacum, autumnalis, [Leontodon autumnalis], hirsitum [Leontodon hirsitum] —Hypodranum radiata — Bellis perennis — Crepis tectorum — Ranunculus repens, bulbosus [Ranunculus bulbosa] , acris [Ranunculus acris] — Daucus carota (wild) — Pastinaca Sativa (wild) — Cardimi [Cardamine] & Lolium perenne is ye only one which natural Gramina properly so called as it is sowed unmixed.
Our cultivated plants are — Triticum etivum hybernum [Triticum hybernum] Secale cereale Hordium distichum [Hordeum distichum] Lolium perenne.
Brasica Rapa Solanum Tuberosum Polygonum Fagopyrum Avena Sativa & tartarica [Avena tartarica]
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5 Cultivated in other parts of G. Britain Hordeum hexastichon (north) Brassica [napus?] (for oil) oleracea [Brassica oleracea] (for cows) Daucus corota (Sativa) / for horses etc in [Tukesbury?] or Worcestershire Glycyrrhiza — for ye extract — round [Yorkshire?]
Thali geniculat [Thalia geniculata] ann. Park. — please to correct to Thali genic. annum. [Thalia geniculata] Bauh. pin. 2[0?] Th. geniculatum [Thalia geniculata] sive Salicornia. Park 20.
Trailing Cockspur must be a sps. of Galium fructu hispido. In ye habit of ye leaves it a good deal resembles aspre= rula odorata [Asperula odorata]. — Hastily written Cynache odorata [Cynanchum odoratum?] in consequence of ye name of our other English species. Asperula cyan= =chia [Asperula cynanchica].
Meadow Blue Bells is Gentiana ciliata. Is it possible I should call it Camp.? [Campanella] But I remember I was much hurried, having comparing in ye house.
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6 Convolv. sepium [Convolvulus sepium] are ye blossoms some times of a pure white in every part? Ours are also so. In those of C. Arvensis [Convolvulus arvensis] they are white, & white tinged more or less with a dull rose red.
Lilium camschat. [Lilium camschatcense ] is L. pensylvan. [Lilium pensylvanicum] but this Sp. was not, probably, in ye Edit!
Lilium Martginon. It is not our L. Martagon [Lilium martagon]. By no means accords with our ye plant or ye fig. reffered to by Lin.
Lilium Martigon & Canad. [Lilium canadense] appear to me to be Vid. p.15 — varieties of one & ye same species.
Aralia should seem to be nudicaulis [Aralia nudicaulis] Both fig. of ye leaf corresponds with ye spec you sent me. I shall be obliged to you for some of ye dried roots to compare with wt we get for ye true Sasparialla. A. nudicaulis [Aralia nudicaulis] is ye Christopho=reria virginiana [Christophoriana virginiana] Zarzo radicibus surculosis & fungoris Pluk. alm. 98
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Andromeda is A. calyculata [Andromeda calyculata]. A. secunda [Andromeda secunda] must have been an error of my pen.
Rhodora canad. [Rhodora canadensis] is not as you observe to be found in ye books, or in Linn. It is ye name by which it is known in ye London Gardens, & was be=come so familiar to me that I believed it to be a Linnean name
False vine will prove I think Lyther Lythrum Verticill. [Lythrum verticillatum]. —
No.1082 — 21 Class Zannich. [Zannichellia] is Acalypha virgin. [Acalypha virginica] belonging with Mercurialis to ye order Tricocca [Mercurialis tricocca] of ye ordinis naturalis at ye end of Gen. pl. Order 3rd. — The flores Marculi are conglomerate at ye end of a hairy pedunculus rising from ye leafs of ye flores feminia. The manner in which ye filaments are united at ye leafs is worthy of an attentive microscopic examinato in living specimens.
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8. "Rhus in moist Rocky ground." appears to be Rhus typhinum [Rhus typhina] with diseased Thyrsi. — probably you will find from ye larvae of insects. But this is only conjecture to be confirmed by your examination & observatio — The best method of engraving botanical plants is ye enlist is ye cheapest, provided they are coloured; consisting of out lines with little or now shading. Such are ye works of Jacq. & Curtis. —
Anemone Sylv. [Anemone sylvestris] Your spec. leaves me no room to doubt of ye identity of ye. Europ. & Amern plants. Such a plant could hardly have passed since ye days of Columbus
Rhus javanicum [Rhus javanica] will be an Agreeable addition to my collection.
Linnea borealis, A plant highly acceptable to me not having been possessed of a specimen, has been found by Kalm Trav. 1. p. 138. as referred to by Forster in his Catalogue.