104 Selections from the Correspondence of 



formance and her manner of describing, I propose to inclose 

 some samples in her own writing, some of which I think are 

 new genus's. One is the Panax foliis terms ternatis, in the 

 Flora Virg. * * Two more I have not found described any 

 where; and in the others you'll find some things particular, 

 which I think are not taken notice of by any author I have 

 seen. If you think, sir, that she can be of any use to you, she 

 will be extremely pleased at being employed by you, either in 

 sending descriptions, or any seeds you shall desire, or dried spe- 

 cimens of any particular plant you shall mention to me. She has 

 time to apply herself to gratify your curiosity more than I ever had ; 

 and now when I have time, the infirmities of age disable me.* 



Nothing could oblige me more than your having introduced 

 me to some correspondence with Dr. Linnaeus, from whom I 

 have had the honor of some letters. With the last I received the 

 first part of the Plantce Coldenghamice, &c, which he has pub- 

 lished in a manner very much to my advantage ; but I have not 

 seen the second part, which by a line at the end of the first is 

 promised.f I am very unfortunate in not being able to continue 

 any correspondence with him, by the want of every method of 

 conveyance between us. I have attempted it unsuccessfully by 

 way of London, I suspect by my friend >s neglect. How- 

 ever, sir, pray when you have an opportunity, make my com- 

 pliments to Dr. Linnaeus, and assure him that no man can have 

 a higher esteem of his great merit than I have, or would more 

 willingly, were it in my power, make a grateful return for the 

 favors I have received. Please to let me kuow what new things 

 he has done for the information of the world. No doubt he still 

 continues to improve our knowledge, but I am entirely ignorant 

 of every thing lately done by him. 



I had the pleasure of conversing with Mr. Kalm, in his passing 

 and repassing through this province ; though I was at the time 



* Further information respecting Miss Jane Colden, the first botanist of her sex 

 in this country, may be found in the correspondence of Collinson, Garden, and 

 Ellis, with Linnaeus, (noticed also in this Journal, Vol. xt, pp. 5-6.) In the se- 

 cond volume of the Edinburgh Essmjs and Obstrvati&ns , -physical and literary, 

 1780, she has very correctly described under the name of Gardenia, the Hyperi- 

 cum Virginicum of Linnaeus, (Elodea, Adans.) and skillfully indicated the char- 

 acters which generically distinguish it from Hypericum. Miss Colden died un- 

 married. — A. G. 



f The second part of the Planta> Coldenghamia 3 we believe was never publish- 

 ed. — A. G. 



