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as did alio Swartz, and, it appears, Payfhull of Swe- 

 den. Dr. Stokes followed up his various fuggeftions for 

 the improvement of the Memoir, by propofing to ded- 

 icate a plant, which he took to be new, to its author. 

 K A plant," he fays, " like a woolly heath, and which I 

 wifhed to call Ctctleria ericoides, turns out to be Hud- 

 fonia ericoides. I hope, however, your herborizations may 

 furnifh a new genus for you, not likely to be difturbed." 

 — Letters of Stokes to Cutler, from "Feb. 14, '91, to Aug. 

 17, '93.'' 1 ' 



But Dr. Cutier's printed memoir on the plants of New 

 England is much furpafied in intereft by his manufcript 

 volumes of defcriptions, ftill extant. Thefe manufcript 

 volumes commence with " Book I., 1783," and continue, fo 

 far as I have feen them, to 1804. The late Mr. Oakes 

 pofTefled fix of thefe books; and two were given to me by 

 my valued friend, the late Dr. T. W. Harris. They are 

 generally entitled, "Defcriptions and Notes on American 

 Indigenous Plants," and contain a vafb number of obferva- 

 tions and analyfes, fometimes accompanied by pen-and-ink 

 sketches. This was evidently the material accumulated 

 for the author s Flora above mentioned ; and the following 

 extracts will ferve to fhow that he was in many refpedts 

 qualified to undertake fuch a work. Thus, in defcribing 

 the feveral hickories, he points out thofe differences from 

 Juglans, upon which Nuttall afterwards conftituted his 



1 Mss. Cutler, penes me. 

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