
          I will [prove?] to mention a few of the plants which I have
collected.- Im searching for the long lost Ixia coelestina
-found by Bartran- in Florida, if I mistake not- I was
so fortunate as to find another species of Ixia of which I
will send you specimens. It [agnus] in no respect with Bartran's 
plant,- is of a purple rather than a blue color-is
branching and grows sometimes to the height of 3 feet.
The [spathe?] generally contains 3 flowers that come out in succession
at intervals of two or three days. I have collected some
of the bulbous parts which I shall send to Col. Carr, Bartran's
garden for cultivation. It will be a most desirable
green house plant. One most singular & beautiful
new Genus, now in flower, much resembles a [Cypersus?] in
habit, & though often appearing to have only a [Scase?], it
is not unfrequently found branching, [?] numerous
splendid flowers which expand nearly all at the same
time, with the exception of the Central terminal one. The
flowers at a distance strikingly resemble a Sabbatia,
being of the same beautiful pink color, but larger, more
[shav?] and uniformly nine cleft, always containing 9
[stamens?] and one pistil with a cleft stigma, and a
coriaceaus campanulate calyx pectinate on the margin.
This plant I certainly think is unknown to botanists
unless it grows also in N. Holland. A few hours ago
I [brang?] [?] in another supposed new Genus, which I have
now before me. It belongs to Portland. [Dig?] Thr flowers
somewhat resemble a Lysimachia but are of the
most intensely brilliant blue that I have ever seen.
A weak [?] plant growing exert to the light of about
[?} feet, with small yellow flowers I have found [unique?].
        