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the same kind, more than ordinarily luxuriant in its 

 spikes. 



7. As for the Gram. Cyperoides elegans spied com- 

 positd, if there be any mistake herein, it must lie at Mr. 

 Doody's door, for he it was, who with great assurance, 

 appropriated your name to this very grass, and I think 

 writ it with his own hand. 



8. I am glad you tell me my Lichen parvus erectus, 8fc., 

 is not what you intended by the Lichen minimus foliolis 

 laciniatis, it being by so much more my own ; and yet 

 you see how unwilling I was to make it so without your 

 farther assurance. Indeed the source of most of these, 

 my failures, was the aversion I had of multiplying species 

 without apparent cause, or giving myself the credit of a 

 discovery which perhaps was due to some other. 



9. Your separating my Melilotus luteus procumbens 

 from yours of Messina is truly instructive. 



10. Your CorymUfera Millefolii umbelld I thought 

 must fall between the Millefol. Tanaceti foL, Moris., and 

 the Ptarmica Alpin., Triumfetti. And therefore in my 

 catalogue I put the doubtful quaere to them both, espe- 

 cially since to the former I find an asterisk prefixed, 

 denoting you had not then seen the plant, and therefore 

 I could not peremptorily exclude it from a competitorship 

 with that to which you have now assigned it, I confess 

 that passage in your appendix had escaped me. 



11. I could almost have sworn I had been right in 

 the reference of my Muscus Corattoides to your name of 

 Muscus pennatus ramulis et capillament. falcatis, it does 

 so exactly answer that title, and therefore your monition 

 here is extreme kind. 



12. The Salix long.fol. kirsuta rosca I did not propose 

 as a new species, but only as an accidental variety in the 

 Caprcea kind, which I think has not anywhere else been 

 exposed in Icon. 



13. As to the Litliosperm. mcy., Dod., which is repent 

 at the root, you would soon be convinced if you compare 

 the other kinds with this, which was taken from a dried 



