356 F. gronovius [1746. 



Dr. Phineas Bond, and James Logan. I hope that he will re- 

 member me concerning the desperate affairs of our Synodus? 

 which are in the hands of Mr. Peters, according to the last 

 account of it. 



I am sorry to hear that Dr. Mitchell is so ill. I hope he may 

 recover soon. 



Yesterday night, I got a letter from Mr. Collinson, dated the 

 16 of May, in which he acquaint me that Dr. Mitchell was taken 

 by the Tiger privateer, from St. Malo, Captain Pallier, who took 

 from him all his learned observations ; for which I am sorry.* 



As you doth not mention a word of the caracter of a new genus 

 of plants, I suspect that you know nothing of it. You must know, 

 that with the assistance of Linnaeus, and other friends, we dis- 

 covered severall new genera, quite different from al these which 

 are known : and so there is made one Bartramia, and another 

 called Coldenia. 



I can't say positively in what book they, with severall other new 

 characters, are printed ; but I am sure that they will be found, or 

 in Fauna Suecica, or the Acta Suecica ;f which books were in 

 April send from Stockholm by sea, so that they are expected here 

 every day : when I shall send to you that book, if there are send 

 duplicates of it. However, that you should know what plant it is, 

 I send to you the character. 



bartramia. 



Lappula benghalensis tetraspermos, ribesii folio, echinis orbiculatis 



ad foliorum ortum plurimis sessilibus. Pink. Almag. p. 206, 



tab. 41, fig. 5. 

 Cal. Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis linearibus, infra apicem 



acuminatis, deciduis. 

 Cor. Petala quinque cuneiformia, unguibus longitudine calycis, 



limbo patente obtuso. 

 Stam. Filamenta decern capillaria, longitudine tubi corollse. 



Anther at subrotundae. 

 Pist. Creirmen subrotundum. Stylus capillaceus, longitudine 



staminum. Stigma simplex. 



* P. Collinson, through whom this letter was sent, adds in a note "but Dr. 

 Mitchell is arrived safe, with his wife, at London, and is much recovered." 



f The genus probably first appeared in the Flora Zeylanica, p. 174, published 

 in 1747. 



