1793.] TO WILLIAM BARTRAM. 475 



the entertainment and assistance I have received, in the cultivation 

 of plants (an employment to which I devote the greatest part of 

 my time), from perusing your Travels through the Southern States. 

 They have already enabled me to bring one plant, -which never 

 throve in the English collections, almost, I think, to as great a 

 degree of perfection, as in the hot savannas of Florida ; and that 

 is the Amaryllis Atamasco : and it is to trouble you for a little 

 information respecting this, and two or three more plants, that I 

 now intrude this letter upon you. * * 



* I know not if you are acquainted with a 



beautiful Fumaria, which Solander called fungosa, in his MSS. 

 [now called Adlumia cirrhosa, Raf.] ; and from which a specified 

 differentia of it has been inserted in the Hortus Kewensis, pub- 

 lished a few years ago. But it came, I believe, from you to 

 Fothergill, and I am very anxious to know the place and soil it 

 grows wild in. I have had it twelve feet high, in a large glass 

 case, where I cultivate such plants as come from the more tem- 

 perate parts of the globe. 



In a catalogue, which is now printing, of the collection here, I 

 have ventured to call a very beautiful little genus after your 

 father, whose MSS. are in Sir Joseph Banks's Herbarium ; and 

 I wish it may meet with your approbation : the more so, as the 

 genus which Gartner has given him can hardly, I think, stand ; 

 and is never likely to be a plant cultivated by man. I wish I had 

 a copy of this catalogue ready to send you, but I will take the first 

 opportunity of offering it to you. In the meanwhile, I send the 

 page which contains Bartramia ;* and shall be much obliged to 

 you for any information respecting the soil and time of flowering, 

 in America, of these two plants. 



Whenever you can spare time to reply to these inquiries (if, 

 indeed, you ever favour me with any reply), your letter will reach 

 me readily by the common mail ; and I do not mind postage. 

 I remain, with great respect, 



Your obliged servant, 



Richard Anthony Salisbury. 



* This does not appear among the Baktram papers ; nor has the editor met 

 with any account of this Bartramia, in the books. 



