382 JOHN BARTRAM TO [1758. 

 triphyllum folio sinuato pubescente, rectum, foliis mi- 



noribus glabris, and the foliis alatis fructu rliomboide, Hort. 



Eltham. If you can add to these, you will greatly oblige me. * 

 If our friend Mr. Collinson thinks this a good opportunity for 

 me to send you the remaining numbers of my Figures of Plants, 

 they shall come now ; but if he judges otherwise, they shall be 

 sent by the first opportunity. * * I have the 



plant which Doctor LlNN^us has named Bartramia, just begin- 

 ning to flower in our stove : so I propose to send you a specimen 

 of it, when it is perfectly dry. The flowers are so small as not 

 to be discerned, by my eyes, without a glass. 



* * * * * * * 



The Mountain JIagnolia, which you mention, we have not in 

 our garden : so if you can spare me a plant of it, you will much 

 oblige me. 



I shall miss no opportunity of writing to you, and shall send 

 you plants of any other sorts you desire from hence ; and there- 

 fore wish you will send me a list of them, that I may have an op- 

 portunity of showing you the pleasure I shall have in supplying 

 you : for, as you observe, we may not long have it in our power to 

 oblige. But you complain of age too soon. I am now entering on 

 my sixty-fourth year ; and, bless God, I am still hearty and well. 

 Though not so active as formerly, yet can go through fatigue ; and 

 so long as I have health, am contented with doing what is in my 

 power. 



I sincerely wish you health and happiness ; and remain your 

 sincere friend, 



Philip Miller. 



January the 12, 1758. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO PHILIP MILLER. 



June the 16th, 1758. 



Worthy Friend Miller : 



I have received two very kind letters from my dear friend this 

 spring, one dated August the 2Gth, 1757, and the other, January 

 the 12th, 1758. I received, last summer, thy Figures of Plants to 

 the number xxm, and with them, the Gardener's Dictionary, to 

 number xxv ; and this spring, I have received number XXVI to 

 number xliii. Now, how the eight numbers miscarried, I know 



