576 REV. HENRY MUHLENBERG [1790. 







different from Spircea. When the exemplar you sent to me blos- 

 soms, I will be better able to judge. 



Your Arbustum has been translated and reprinted in Germany. 

 I have wrote for several exemplars and expect them this year. 



As I know that your nephew has studied physic, I make bold to 

 send him the late edition of Linn^ei Materia Medica, and hope the 

 present will be not unacceptable. I have a great many botanical 

 writings, and shall be happy if I can serve you or him in botanical 

 researches, through a loan of them. Pray remember my best re- 

 spects to him ; and tell him how gladly I would embrace an oppor- 

 tunity of a correspondence, which certainly would be an advantage 

 to our botanical studies. 



You were pleased to mention to me, that you had an edition of 

 Walter's Flora Caroliniensis. If you could spare that work for 

 a feAv weeks, and send it to Lancaster for my perusal, I should 

 think myself greatly indebted to you. It should be returned with 

 expedition and undamaged. 



If the Lord spares my health, I shall pass by your house, the 

 latter end of May, on my way to Philadelphia ; and then hope to 

 see you, your nephew, and your garden. Against that time, I ex- 

 pect to receive a great many of fresh seeds from Germany, of which 

 you shall have whatever may be pleasing. 



God preserve you in good health. Believe me to be with great 

 regard, sir, 



Your sincere friend and servant, 



Henry Muhlenberg. 



Lancaster, January 18, 1790. 



rev. h. muhlenberg to dr. m. marshall. 



Dear Sir : 



I beg leave to inform you, that the new edition of the Genera 

 Linn^ii is safely arrived. The first volume arrived some time ago ; 

 the second very lately. The first is only bound in paper. I am 

 happy to see that the editor, my friend D. Schreber, has done 

 what I required from him. He has given your name to a hitherto 

 undescribed plant, that belongs to the Syngenesia, Polygamia 

 cequalis, which he names 3farshallia. 



The price of both volumes is 24s. 4d. If you still incline to have 

 them, pray let me know where to send them. 



