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XLIV. A Copy of a Letter from John 
Ellis, Efq\ F. R. S. to Dr . Linnaeus, 
F. R. S. &c. with the Figure and Charac - 
ters of that elegant American Fver green- 
tree, called by the Gardiners the Loblolly- 
Bay, taken fromB lojfoms blown near London, 
and fhewmg that it is not an Hibifcus, as 
Mr. Miller calls it ; 7ior an Hypericum, 
as Dr. Lmnxusf uppofes it ; but an intire 
new Genus , to which Mr. Ellis gives the 
Name of Gordonia. 
Dear Sir, 
Read Dec. 20, "XT OU are no ftranger to the frequent 
17/0 * jl errors that arife in botany, by tak- 
ing the characters of new genera from fpecimens of 
dried plants ; at the fame time it is well known to 
be an eftablifhed rule with you to alter or amend 
any thing of this kind, as foon as it appears clear to 
you from better evidence. This is the reafon that I 
addrefs you with more freedom in the prefent botani- 
cal caufe, in which you are concerned. 
You 
