390 JOHN BARTRAM TO [1755. 



galum [probably the Helonias asphodeloides, L. ; Xeropliyllum, of 

 Mx.] ; but the flowers are so much compressed as to render the 

 distinguishing characters very doubtful. 



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The Yellow-root [Hydrastis Canadensis, L.] has flowered, and 

 ripened seeds, in our garden, two years past, from some roots 

 which were sent me from the inland parts of your country. It is 

 a new genus. I have figured, and described it, by the title of 

 Warneria. 



The dale Asplenii folio has produced male flowers in our gar- 

 den, the last year ; but as there was no appearance of female or 

 hermaphrodite flowers, nor any rudiment of fruit, so I suppose it 

 to be male and female in different plants. The two specimens you 

 was so kind as to send me, were one male and the other female : 

 so I shall be glad to be informed if they were taken from the same 



plant.* 



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Your Dwarf Cherry [Oerasus pumila, Mx. ?] I believe is the 

 same which I have figured. The stones came from Canada to 

 Paris, and were sent me from thence. It produces great numbers 

 of flowers along the branches, so makes a good appearance in the 

 spring, and the fruit is black, about the size of our small black 

 cherries, here, but of a disagreeable flavour. The plant propagates 

 so fast, by cuttings and layers, that it is now common in our 

 gardens. * * * * 



I am your friend and servant, 



Philip Miller. 



Chelsea, Nov. 10, 1759. 



JOHN BARTRAM TO DR. GARDEN.f 



October the 12th, 1755. 



Respected Friend, Dr. Garden : 



I received thy kind letter of May the 18th, 1755, which was 



* The Comptonia asplenifolia, Ait., is now known to be a Monoicous plant. 



f Alexander Garden, M.D., F.R.S., a native of Scotland, and educated at 

 Edinburgh, resided at Charleston, South Carolina, where he was extensively en- 

 gaged in the practice of physic for near thirty years. He married there, on 

 Christmas eve, 1755, as appears from one of his letters to Mr. Ellis, with whom 

 he maintained a frequent scientific and friendly intercourse, and by whom he was 

 introduced to the correspondence of Linnaeus. Botany, and some of the more 



