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Floruit mihi hoc tempore tua Salvia cum minutis floribus, divers- 

 issima ab americana, quam putaveram quondam eandem fuisse. 

 Mirer quod potueras videre stamina Salviae in hac, tani parva, 

 tamen genuina. Videtur mihi fore perennem plan tarn. 



Dabam Upsahse 1764 d. 3 Novembris. 



Viro Amplissimo 



j)iio pj;rpEo Aeduino, 

 Professori Publico, 

 Paduce. 



[Translation.] 



Care yon Linne, Knight, 



with cordial greeting 



to the distinguished Pietro Aedfino. 



I have duly received the letter which you wrote to me on the 

 3rd June, but not yet the packet sent at the same time. The 

 postman demanded 6 rixdollars (gold ducats) for the packet, 

 which seemed to me excessive. They charge all letters so much 

 per ounce, and for each foreign letter the postman charges one- 

 third of a rixdollar per ounce. If, my dear friend, you had 

 addressed your packet, as I have previously advised, to the Royal 

 Society of Sciences at Upsala, I should have received it free of 

 charge. I wrote to the postal authorities at Stockholm, but have 

 received no reply. I have during the present year paid more than 

 40 rixdollars for letters ; I am now tired of this, and propose not 

 to take in letters which cost more than one rixdollar. 



My Astragalus chinensis has two forms ; yours is doubtless the 

 small stemless purple one which I have, with VeTla pseudocytisus 

 and Nolana prostrata. 



The untimely fate of my pupil Forskal in Arabia felix has 

 occasioned me much grief ; I had letters from him shortly before 

 his death, about the genus Opohalsamum, with its characters, eight 

 stamens, one style, four petals. At last I have received into my 

 garden the true E-habarbarum which is Rhabarhanim [recte Rheum] 

 palmatum, together with Actcea cimicifuga which I have long 

 ardently wished for, but the latter has not yet flowered with me, 

 though I hope it will next year. 



