392 LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 
Brid., Neckera cirrhosa (Fl. Ind. Occ.,) and four or five more 
non descripte, most from the South Seas, ought to be joined. 
At the hasty inspection of the exotic Mosses, there is, I think, 
something similar among them, about which more another 
time, as well as considering the Hypnum Tamarisct, (Fl. Ind.,) 
and the confusion of Leskea rotulata, etc. How much you 
will oblige me by some fragments of the. new species, the 
Humboldtian, &c. : Nobody can estimate their value more 
than I do. I dare say I may find something worth your 
notice for publication in my collection. i 
* Very lately I had the satisfaction of receiving & letter 
from Mr. Taylor of Ireland, together with some interesting 
indigenous Mosses. But the letter was upwards of fifteen 
months old! . It came via Hamburgh. 
- How goes it with the Lichenographia of Messrs Turne 
and Borrer, (quoted frequently in Engl. Bot. as in manu- 
script ?) I suppose nothing is published yet,* as I have not 
seen it announced anywhere. . The tracts of M. Acharius 
which I send you upon the Calicioidee may perhaps be of 
some service for extricating doubtful points on this tribe of 
the Lichen family. . The accompanying Dissertation On — 
Daphne, by Wikstróm, was delivered last year at Upsal, as - 
a specimen pro Grado Medico, and I think it is a pretty good 
botanical publication. Besides these, you will find a little 
. Monograph on the Genus Diopsis, as I know your taste for 
Entomology, and probably may this exhibition please you- 
My friend M. Schénheer has requested me to present you 
his best compliments; he is anxious to know if his last send- 
ing of insects and the 3d vol. of his Synonymia are come to 
your hands: |.  . I i de 
Ts the 2d volume of Mr Brown's Prodromus published UE 
at present? - an gru iba 
joe « QO. SWARTZ.” 
__ * This has only recently (that is in 1839,) been printed by the authors 
for private distribution, and is at once a proof of their deep knowledge 1^ 
his bran h of B ot n 3 and a model for accurate description. E m 
