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Galix: tubus brevis parvus campanulatus subcoloratus fauce fimbriato 

 ■subclansus limbus in lacinias 5. lanceolatas patentes longas lete caeruleas 

 ad faucem divisus. Gorolla monopetala, tubus brevis angustus stricte 

 germen involvens. Limbus patulus quiuquepartitus quasilabiatus, fauce 

 •coloratus subhirsutus albidus, laciniis subrotundis subequalibus medio in- 

 feriore paulo majori basi colorato prominulo pulcbre e purpureo ceru- 

 lescens. Stam. fi[l]amenta i^ brevia versus faucem floris sub labio su- 

 periore porrecta, Antherae subrotundae in fauce. Germen obverse conicum. 

 Stilus longitudine tubi floris. Stigma obtusum in fauce floris. pericarp. 

 ■e germine videtur capsula bilocularis bispermis? 



There is another curious little plant here w.*^ at first sight I took 

 for the countess Linnea But on Examination have concluded it other- 

 ways. Inc[l]osed I send you a perfect specimen & some of the former 

 flowers not well preserved for 1 have not yet so much as browen-paper 

 books for this purpose. but least any change should happen in the spe- 

 cimen I send you, I take the liberty of sending the Description whith it. 

 But it some times rises above a foot in height in Shady places & is 

 cheefly found about the Sulphur k at the foot of the mountain. 



Sauvagesia foliis oblongis nitidis serrato-dentatis, basi stipulis ciliatis 

 •ornatis. 



Galix pentaphyllus paténs, foliolis lanceolatis basi tumidis post lap- 

 sum floris erectis, capsulam complexantibus. Gorolla duplex, exteriör 

 pentaphilla paténs petalis ovatis utrinque acutis. Interiör pentaphylla erecta, 

 petalis augustis lanceolatis stricte genetalia involventibus. Nectaria fila- 

 menta numerosa parva antheris parvis albidis ornata corollam interiorem 

 singunt undique. Stam. filamenta brevia quinque, antheris longiusculis 

 majoribus erecta inträ corollam interiorem. Pist. germen ovatum, stilus 

 brevis simplex longitudine fere antherarum Stigma simplex. pericarp. 

 capsula ovata unilocularis, 3bus striis interne notata, quibus affiguntur 

 semina plura rotunda subrugosa. 



I have many other things to send you but as my papers are not 

 yet come up nor meself settled to any satisfaction, I cant write more. 

 Excuse my writing in English, I have reason to think you know it 

 «ufficiently & it is vastly more convenient to me novf to do so. I would 

 be much oblidged to you for a sett of your Systema, species & genera 

 plant, and some acct of any new or uncommun observations you might 

 have made in the Materia Medica. here we use James powders in 

 smaller doses with great success in the irregular remittants after bleeding, 

 it is the Grocus Metalorum reduced to a calx with a certain quantity 



