214 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
to make any material alteration,” although, as is evident from 
Bartram’s numerous notes in the National He rbarium, he certainly 
corrected Bartram’s ~~, - —_ eset orthography. 
Collinson’s MS. no 
‘John Bartram, a au tive of Pensilvania, lived on a small 
Patrimony on the River Skulkil [Schuylkill] abt 5 ie fr. Phila- 
delphia. I employ’d him to collect seeds—100 Species in a Box 
at five Guineas rego from the year 17385 to this year 1760 
about twenty boxes a year one with another which I have, to 
oblige the Curious in Planting, distributed amongst the Nobility & 
Gentry, &c. 
‘To Entertain Mee, he writt this Journal. I gave it to Whiston 
and Com. to Print who have done it scandelously. 
** Peter Collinson.” 
We ha ave a MS. *“ Account of the first Introduction s ine dave 
edfor: 
The delightfal correspondence between Collinson and Bartram 
ccupies the greater part of Memorials of John Bartram and Humphr ry 
Marsal, by William Darlington, M.D., published at Philadelphia 
n 1849. 
It may perhaps be worth while to correct the statement in the 
woke Gee of Books, &c., in the British Museum (Natural History) that 
“the original MS.” of William Bartram’s Travels ‘is preserved in 
the Botanical Department.’’ The MS. account of his travels which 
we have is not the original of the published work. 
James Britten. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Vitis cutnensis Mill. Dict. ed. 8 (1768), No. 5.—This name, not 
cited in the Index Flore Sinensis, is, as Miller’s specimens in the 
National Herbarium show, and as Robert Brown noted on the sheet 
on which they are fastened, identical with V. incisa Lam. BE os 
ii. 612 (1786) ), which it of course antedates. Inthe Indea Kewensis 
oth are . Negundo, but the Chinese Flora keeps them 
distinct. Specimens from Chelsea Garden show that it was culti- 
vated there as V. Negundo in 1759 and 1781. Miller, — 
description is good, says that it had been « lately introduced in 
the English gardens from Paris, where the — were raised ma 
seeds which were sent from China by the missionaries. I was 
favoured with some young mans i Monsieur Richard, gardener to 
the King at Versailles. The plant is well figured in Miller’s 
