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celebrated school, but also for all botanists. M. 

 Broussonet has also given that of ihe Jardin de Mont' 

 pellicr.'''' 



Mr. Cuvier. 



21. Captain Merewether Lewis has transmitted to 

 the American Philosophical Society (through the 

 hands of the President of the United- States) a num- 

 ber of plants, which he has collected in different parts 

 of the country that is watered by the river Missouri, 

 and its branches. A catalogue of these plants (with 

 some account of those which are new, or very rare) is 

 preparing for the Society, by one of its members. 

 These specimens, with others which we may hope to 

 receive from Captain Lewis, will serve as a begin- 

 ning of a Flora Missourica. 



Editor. 



22. We have here (at Savannah) a new species of 

 herbaceous Polygala, with unpenniciliated red flowers 

 in a simple terminal racemus, and narrow ovate lan- 

 ceolate leaves. Its taste resembles that of Polygala 

 Senega. I have seen a variety with white flowers, as 

 T have of the Phlox caroliniana. 



Letter from Dr. John Brickell 

 to the Fiditor. 



