LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 389 
 boldt's Cryptogame by themselves, and to incorporate them 
with new and rarer subjects of the same class, is most excel- 
lent, and likely to answer much better the destined purpose, 
| that of promoting this part of the science, and I wish and hope 
Ishall in some measure be useful to you in this undertaking, 
by communication of matters that perhaps deserve attention. 
It would somewhat satisfy me if you find the few enclosed 
duplicates of Jungermannie worthy notice. They appear new 
to me, and were these very days, given me by a friend who 
brought them from Guadeloupe in the course of the year. 
They are natives of the cloud-capped regions of that island. 
-. * You have obliged me very much by the information about 
.. the doubtful plants in my last letter. Surprising appears to 
. me the generic metamorphosis of Bryum conoideum ! Tim- 
— mia Austriaca, Y believe to be distinct from T. Megapolitana, 
as I have received both from Hedwig himself. The former 
is an indigenous Swedish plant. The singular splachnoid 
. moss* you mention, I long very much to see, and I wonder 
. much that I do not find it, among many others, communi- 
: = cated by Dr Schmidt from Christiana, who, I think, becomes 
an excellent labourer in the vineyard. Yesterday I was told 
that he is arrived to England, coming from the Canaries. 
If this be true, he will certainly endeavour to see you person- 
. ally, a fortune of which I am deprived. I have been hard at 
.. work on the indigenous Roses this summer, and am convinced 
. of the multiplicity of that genus beyond the opinion hitherto 
. entertained. PA SERGE quid 
« Your heartily obliged friend and servant, | UE 
“© OLAF Swartz.” 
* Feb. 9th, 1816. 
December was indeed very great, since I had been in want - 
of all news of you very near a twelvemonth, and I began to © 
fear that something in my last might have displeased you. 
; cipes * Tayloria splachnoides, Hook. | 
- Journ. of Bot. Vol. II. No. 16. September, 1840. 3 € 
- The pleasure I felt by receiving your letter of the 21st — T. 
