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Maryland likewise confirmed this.’ The root of Solidago cana- 
densts ‘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 Gillenia trifoliata is ‘call’d here, Ipecacuanha.’ 
Occasionally a note shows particular observations, such as this 
on Clematis virginiana: ‘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 +} 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, 1748, 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 a piece 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. Colden’s by noon. Got our dinner, and set out to gather seeds, 
and did not get back till two hours within night; then looked hae 
te) 
some of the Doctor’s daughter’s botanical, curious observations. “© 
the Pines, on a high hill near the Doctor’s. After dinner, we went 
to the river to gather Aréor Vitae seeds: then returned to Dr. sein s 
by two hours within night. In the morning gathered seeds till break- 
Bee 
* Darlington, W. Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall. Phila- 
delphia. 1849. 
Smith, T. E. Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus. London. 
t Darlington. Me i 95. 
1821. 
