McAtee — Muhlenberg on Plants in D. C. Region, 1809. 69 



The plants have been lying in the package in this way, and I left them in 

 the same order until I reached the first numbers which were new to me and 

 appeared to me quite strange. Where I do not make any mark it refers 

 to plants which we have here in gardens or otherwise growing wild. 



Now I should like to have also Virginian plants of the Flora Gronovii 

 which I am lacking and which I should be glad to receive: 1. Salicornia, 

 2. Utricularia, 3. Cyperus odoratus, 4. Asperula, 5. Aphanes, 6. Sagina, 7. 

 Lycopsis, 8. Triosteum angustifolium, 9. Swertia, 10. Tordylium, 11. 

 Angelica lucida, 12. Burmannia, 13. Elatine hydropiper, 14. Vitex, 15. 

 Dolichos regularis, 16. Hehanthus atrorubens, 17. Verbesina virginica, 

 18. Centaurea, 19. Lobelia cliff ortiana, 20. Zannichellia, 21. Tragia, 22. 

 Atriplex, 23. Any hitherto undescribed plant. 



Kindly transmit my best thanks, in my name, to Mr. Billyh and Mr. 

 Pickford, and whenever you want something from this section of the 

 country, kindly let me know. 



With my best regards and assurance of friendship, I remain 



Your obedient servant and friend, 



Heinrich Muhlenberg. 



Allowing for duplications and for incomplete identification there are in 

 the neighborhood of 224 species of plants named in this remarkable letter. 

 Though some of the names can not be identified with those of species now 

 ranging in our area, there is no reason to doubt that all of the plants were 

 collected in or near the District of Columbia and probably within a shorter 



iThis Mr. Billy no doubt is the Peter Billy who had sent plants from Virginia as stated 

 in the preface of Muhlenberg's Catalog. No additional information on Mr. Pickford has 

 yet been obtained. 



