
          new names, given in this country, to American plants, which have 
been already described in publications that have appeared in 
your country, there is this excuse; that we really know little 
or nothing of the works of science published in America till 
years after the publication. You mention Silliman's journal, 
(as contg [containing] some Botl [botanical] papers) Eaton's Manual of botany, Barton's Flora 
Philadelphica [Florae Philadelphicae prodromus], some memoirs of Nuttall & Schweinitz, in allusion to 
[crossed out: Nuttall's] [added: [Goldie's] paper on N. Am. [North American] plants, which I am sure Goldie never 
saw, & which I myself have never been able to possess, although 
my library is a very valuable one, & though I spare neither pains
nor costs to make it as complete as I can. I am therefore
the more obliged to you for your remarks upon Mr. Goldie's memoir
& I hope sincerely you will give them to the public. I 
have most of Goldie's plants & some I have already published 
in my Flora Exotica. Upon your notes however I will 
beg to observe;

1. Swertia corniculata.  It is mentioned in the description as 
being proposed by Pursh as distinct from the European. 
2. Lithospermum linearifol. [Lithospermum linearifolium]. Goldie's plant is unquestionably
fructicose.
3. Primula pusilla. Your notes come in time for me to introduce 
your observation on this, in my description (with a 
figure in Fl. [Flora] Exotica. I have retained the name pusilla. 
It is undoubtedly distinct from our Pr. farinosa [Primula farinosa] & our
Prim. scotica [Primula scotica] ([simili?] in Fl. Lond. [Flora Londinensis]) & does not agree with the
P. mistassinica [Primula mistassinica] of Mich. [Michaux].
4. Caprif. pubescens [Caprifolium pubescens] must be changed hirsutum Eat. [Caprifolium hirsutum Eaton]. I had 
figured it in Fl. Exot. [Flora Exotica] before your information arrived.
5. Xylosteum oblongifol. [Xylosteon oblongifolium]. This you say is X. villosum [Xylosteon villosum] of Mx. [Michaux],
but Michaux's plant has "Baccae distinctae" & of a [crossed out: red] blue 
color; whereas Goldie's has decidedly [coordunate?] berries & 
of a red colour. 
6. Drosera linearis. The leaves of this are totally unlike those of
the American Dr. longifolia [Drosera longifolia]: but I have only very bad specimens
in other respects.
Pyrola asarifolia. Whatever this may be of Nuttall it certainly 
is not the P. chlorantha [Pyrola chlorantha] of Swartz, of which I have specimens 
from the author.
        