THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 167 
have again taken Botany in hand. I was almost tempted to 
publish a counterpart of the Poetical Geology in Silliman—to be 
entitled the Tears of Flora! describing her despair at the desertion 
of her votaries but am glad indeed that her own charms have 
brought yourself & others back to her shrine. The small packet 
you lately sent me was peculiarly acceptable as it contained some 
very interesting new species. I have entered them in the General 
List, but beg to add a few particular observations. 
Botrychium simplex. 1 hailed with particular joy. Two or 
three specimens perfectly agreeing with yours had been obtained 
by me from Canada & been called by me B. pusillum. Your 
name is better & has been adopted. 
367 [Rhizomorpha abietina*| is most undoubtedly Rhizomorpha— 
but a new & distinct species—I should be greatly obliged to you, 
if you allow me to keep it, as it is in a most interesting state for 
- observing what is considered the Fructification of this Lichen 
(accord[ing] to Acharius) & justly I think. 
365 [Rhizomorpha crocea|—my Rhiz. crocea in a no less interesting 
state. 
370 [Craterium floriforme] is a most desirable new species of the 
Genus Craterium of Nees, hitherto containing a solitary species. 
This new species forms a renge link in the series—which was 
wanting. 
372 [Bartramia an nova] male flowers of a Bartramia or Mnium— 
is this perhaps the true B. grandiflora? 
374 [Sclerotium radiciforme| comes on a wish!—the third species 
of a remarkable subdivision of Sclerotium called by Nees Thana- 
tophytum from the destructive effect of the only European Species 
on the Bulbs of Crocus in France. 
366 [Targionia hypophylla?| Without fructificat[ion] I take it for 
the fronsof T E hypophylla. What is however the other moss 
among it with . ? [a few words torn out]. 
I was not a little Aiea to hear of the probable loss of the 
plants sent me by Profes. Dewey. I should greatly deplore that 
loss—if I did not entertain a hope that they may still be recovered. 
The package you left at Mr. Mortimer’s was received tho’ after a 
very long time—I = — for not So it in my last. 
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