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cies by their leaves. No description in words alone can give so clear 
an idea as when the description is assisted with a picture. She has 
the impression of 300 plants in the manner you’! see by the sample 
sent you. That you may have some conception of her manner of de- 
scribing (of plants) I propose to enclose some (two or three) Samples 
in her own writing, some of which I think are new genus’s. One is 
of the Panax folys ternis ternatis in the Flora Virg. . . . I never had 
seen the fruit of it till she discover’d it. The fruit is ripe in the be- 
ginning of June and the plant dies immediately after the fruit is ripe 
& no longer to be seen. Two more I have not found described any 
where and in the others you will find some things particular which I 
think are not taken notice of by any Author I have seen. If you 
think S* that She can be of any use to you She will be extremely 
pleased in being employed by you either in sending Descriptions for 
any Seeds you shall desire or dried specimens of any particular plants 
that you shall mention to me. She has time to apply herself to gratify 
your curiosity more than I ever had and now when I have time the 
infirmities of age disable me.”’ 
Mr. Britten describes the “ pretty large volume in writing” as 
follows: 
“The ‘ pretty large volume in writing’ is now in the Depart- 
ment of Botany in the British Museum. After the writer’s 
death it passed into the hands of F. von Wangenheim, then into 
those of Godfrey Baldinger, and finally became the property ot 
Banks. An account of the MS. is prefixed by Wangenheim, 
and a title-page was added by Baldinger, of which the following 
1S a transcript : 
FLORA 
NOV.—EBORACENSIS. 
Plantas in Solo Natali 
collegit, descripsit, 
delineavit, 
COLDENIA, 
CADWALLADER COLDENS 
Filia. 
Divitiis Bibliothecae 
Josephi Banks 
adiecit 
