©r. fEanassdj Sutler, 
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as did alfo 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. 
" A plant," he fays, " like a woolly heath, and which I 
wifhed to call Cutleria 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. Cutler's printed memoir on the plants of New 
England is much furpafled in intereft by his manufcript 
volumes of defcriptions, flill extant. Thefe manufcript 
volumes commence with " Book I., 1783," and continue, fo 
far as I have feen them, to 1804. The late Mr. Oakes 
poffefled 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 vaft 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 refpefts 
qualified to undertake fuch a work. Thus, in defcribing 
the feveral hickories, he points out thofe differences from 
Juglans, upon which Nuttall afterwards constituted his 
1 Mss. Cutler, penes me. 
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