
          not mine, and adopt his name, A arenaria, [Atriplex arenaria]a posterior one ? without
even quoting my anterior name.  The fair inference might be that had
not Mr Nuttall adopted my species (changing the name) you would not
have even inserted it, or called it again A. patula [Atriplex patula] as Muhlenberg did!
& so many others, since my A. dioica [Atriplex dioica] which is equally a distince species
is omitted, as if I was no authority, unless it is your A. laciniata [Atriplex lacinata] while
it is neither that nor A. hastata. [Atriplex hastata] Read the characters & compare!  So much
for 2 plants.  I could fill a page of similar (apparently) oversights [crossed out:)] ; but
which some people will take as usual for judgments!

My Euphorbia supina has obtuse ovate-oblong leaves 1 nerved and flowers fasicule.
while my E. littoralis, [Euphorbia littoralis] has [crossed out:ovate] rounded cordate acute leaves 3 nerved & fl. solitary
now which is your E. depressa ? [Euphorbia depressa] you dont [don't] describe it, & omit my 2 species!

Your Myosotis arvensis is not even a Myosotis, it has no scales, it differs
from European M. arv [Myosotis arvensis] by having white flowers, seeds lenticular, leaves
obtuse, upright etc.  I have just examined the plant again in Jersey, I could 
not see any scales in 100 flowers which I dissected.  Query has the M. arvensis
of Europe any scales ?  I have sent it with 120 other doubtful or new plants
to Decandolle [De Candolle].  We shall hear what he says.  I recommend him to look
sharper than Kalm, Linneus [Linnaeus], Michaux, Pursh Muhlenberg & I can have
no reliance in their opinion while I see they have blended so many of our distinct
plants with the European, witness Impatiens nolitangere [noli-tangere]!!! Etc.
The error arises from trusting to memory & habit without comparing the plants
or their figures & their descriptions acuratly [accurately] & minutely.  Even in Europe
lately among the fruit-trees, Decandolle [De Candolle] & others have ascertained many new
unnoticed species, taken by Linneus [Linnaeus] for varieties or omitted.  It is better to
draw the attention by distinguishing the species accuratly [accurately], than to let them pass
unnoticed by neglect.

Yr [Your] quotation abt [about] Kalmia latifolia does not apply, because it is impossible
that a single doubt wold exist now on it yet remember that it was deemed
formerly a Rhododendron, it was Linneus [Linnaeus] that distinguished it!  It will
be only when all genera & sp. shall be properly ascertained that our attention
may be drawn to investigate the full nat. [natural] hist. [history] of each plant, till then
we shall stay too much stuck on correcting each other!

Now for Gratiola.  I fear you overshot the mark, yours is probably 
the real Gr. virginica of Gronovius  & Linneus [Linnaeus] etc. that of Elliott [crossed out: is a ] [added: will then]
be a new species, not ours.  I have found ours from Vermont to Virginia
& Illinois, distinguished every where by the jasmin [jasmine] smell.
        