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Maryland likewise confirmed this.' The root of Solidago cana- 

 densis ' is used in Carolina for the cure of the Negro Poison ' ; 

 Oenothera biennis is ' call'd here by the Country People, Sea- 

 bedge ' ; Malva caroliniana is ' called in South Carolina, Bohea 

 Tea : ' and Gill ei da trifoliata is ' call'd here, Ipecacuanha.' 

 Occasionally a note shows particular observations, such as this 

 on Clematis virgiidana : ' Neither Linnaeus take notice (sic) that 

 there are some Plants of the Clematis that bear only Male flowers, 

 but this I have observed with such care, that there can be no 

 doubt of it.'" 



Numerous references to her in Darlington's* Memorials of 

 John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, Smith's f Correspondence 

 of Linnaeus and elsewhere in contemporaneous records and 

 biographies, evince the fact that she had become well known to 

 her father's friends and that her botanical accomplishments were 

 appreciated and her services in the matter of the collection of 

 seeds and plants often taken advantage of. 



Peter Kalm on the 29th September, 1 748, sends his respects 

 to Mistress Colden, the Misses and young Master Colden. 



In a letter from John Bartram ;|; to Peter Collinson dated 1753, 

 he describes a journey to the "Katskill Mountains " with his son 

 "Billy" and writes of a visit to Coldengham in the following 

 words : 



"At night, we lodged seven or eight of us (they being two families) 

 in the hut, hardly big enough for a hen-roost — I and Billy on the 

 ground — after apiece of a musty supper. Slept but little in this 

 lousy hut, which we left, as soon as we could well see our path, in the 

 morning, having paid him half a crown, which he charged, and reached 

 Dr. Golden' s by noon. Got our dinner, and set out to gather seeds, 

 and did not get back till two hours within night ; then looked over 

 some of the Doctor's daughter's botanical, curious observations. Next 

 morning, as soon as I could see, we hunted plants till breakfast : then 

 the Doctor's son went with me to Doctor Jones's, where we observed 

 the Pines, on a high hill near the Doctor's. After dinner, we went 

 to the river to gather Arboi- Vitae seeds : then returned to Dr. Golden 's 

 by two hours within night. In the morning gathered seeds till break- 



* Darlington, W. Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. Phila- 

 delphia. 1849. 



t Smith, %. E. Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus. London. 1821. 

 % Darlington. Memorials, 195. 



