290 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



" Eddy and myself are now arranging his herbarium, which 

 is in great confusion — the most of his plants he has not seen for 

 several years. The whole he has deposited in the Lyceum. It 

 contains many plants from the pine barrens of New Jersey, many 

 from Georgia by Le Conte, some Of which are new. Many of 

 Pursh's new species were furnished him by Le Conte, Eddy, etc., 

 for which he has not made any acknowledgement. Rafinesque 

 discovered Drosera filiformis in 1802, and published it in 1811 

 in his Precis des Decouvertes (#) ; this and many other species 

 Pursh has stolen. 



"The circular address of Rafinesque which I send you will 

 give you some idea of his character. He is the the best naturalist 

 I am acquainted with, but he is too fond of novelty. He finds 

 too many new things. All is new ! new ! He has an opinion 

 that there are no plants common to Europe and America. Gali- 

 um aparine is G. aparinoides, Raf., etc., etc. 



" I have lately had a great dispute with Raf. respecting Bol- 

 ton's Fungi, whether it was of Halifax in Nova Scotia or Eng- 

 land. He asserted that it was Halifax in England, and I as 

 strongly denied it, but on referring to the copy in the Hosp. 

 Library, I was obliged to give up I believe you were as much 

 mistaken as I was. 



" I suppose you are tired of reading, so farewell. 



"Your friend, 



" P. S. We have received Elliott's Botany of Carolina and 

 Georgia, as far as Pentandria digyna, 1 vol., 8vo. It contains 

 full descriptions as far as it goes, and is the best book on Ameri- 

 can botany ever published. Tell me whether you want any sub- 

 scriptions for your Botany of the Northern States; if you do I can 

 get about sixty in the course of a week (I think). It would be 

 a good time to publish it now, as you may [be] anticipated by some 

 other botanist if you delay it till next summer. Eddy has pro- 

 posed to me to publish with him a flora of one hundred miles 

 around New York. We have together about 1,400 species, but 



