Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Swartz, Olof Peter
Sent from:
Stockholm, Sweden
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
By Smith's request sending specimens of West Indian plants including from 'Urtica' and 'Epidendrum', surprised to hear from Sir Joseph Banks that species of the latter have been flowering at Kew. His definition for separating 'Epidendrum' and associated genera 'Limodorum'. [Richard] Salisbury's observations on 'Cypripedium' are "ingenious", further discussion of the genus with reference to 'Cypripedium calceolus' and 'Cypripedium bulbosum', compliments Smith's coloured figure of same and wishes that all of the 'Gynandrae' were similarly illustrated. Does not agree with [Carl Peter] Thunberg's idea to place 'Orchideous' plants in the 'Diandria' order but agrees with [Johann von] Schreber's arrangement of 'Arum'. Preoccupied with his work on "Icones". Apologises for his error in characterisation of 'Canella alba' [in his paper for "Linnean Transactions"], only one loculament is filled with seeds.
Letter date:
4 Oct 1792
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
9.155
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
| Related Material | Swartz, O, (1794). "Icones plantarum incognitarum quas in India occidentali ... Fasciculus I". Erlangae: Palm.
Swartz, O, 'The Botanical History of the Canella alba', "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London", 1791, 1(1), pp.96-102.
Swartz, O. 'Botanical history of the Canella alba.' Read 2/12/1788. With a pen and ink drawing. And an extract from a letter to J.E. Smith, dated 4/10/1792, apologising for a fault committed in the characterisation of 'Canella alba'. |
| Additional | Smith replied 23 Jun 1793 |
