Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst
Sent from:
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
The 234 dried plants he sent Smith are still in Philadelphia after missing ships and a "dreadfull sickness" in the city that stopped communications. Sending seventy-eight 'Cryptogamic' plants additional to those already sent. His "Index florae Lancastriensis" now published in Transactions of Philadelphia Philosophical Society, offers to send any plants Smith wants from it. Limited usefulness of [Johann Christian] Schaeffer's "Fungi". Queries: asks if 'Hypericum setosum' and 'Sarothra gentianoides' are really different plants; if 'Cassia ligustrina' and 'Cassia marilandica', 'Asclepias tuberosa' and 'Asclepias decumbens', 'Ambrosia elatior' and 'Ambrosia artemisiifolia', 'Urtica capitata' and 'Urtica cylindrica', and 'Rumex britannica' and 'Rumex persicaria', are different and how; if there is a book on North American plants containing figures, and if Plukenet in particular is one. Smith has annotated some of these queries with brief responses, in pencil.
Letter date:
22 Nov 1793
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
7.155
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
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| Related Material | Schaeffer, J C, (1762-1774). "Fungorum qui in Bavaria et Palatinatu circa Ratisbonam ... icones ..." Ratisbona: Typis Zunkelianis. |
| 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. |
