
          [illegible]  I wish you had enlarged of a page or two your notes to give us the
characters of Juglans hybrida & plants not yet described.

Is it by an error of the prep that my genus Hicorius has been called
Hickoria?  it might be Hicoria or Hicarya; but never Hicoria which is a
barbarous unmodifyed [unmodified] name.

Send me (but not by mail) at your leisure [?} sp [species] Asperus, which
I believe to have seen, also any other N sp [species] you can well spare & Schizea
Arenaria, Squamosa, Lateriflora & such rare plants.  [crossed out:You in] They may [added:be] left
at Mr. Collins.

[illegible]  Gratiola neglecta the common species, which I have found
from Lake Champlain to Illinois [added: & Virginia] & always deemed the Gr. [Gratiola] virginica?
Mine is known at once by its sweet scented flowers smelling like jasmin
a striking character omitted by every one - or is it different & how ? you
have forgot to compare them.

[illegible]  Arenaria canadensis a compressed stem ? is it then my A.
compressa ? different from the Canada species?

Please to read the following notice to the Lyceum, & then put it in Lilliman's
journal.

Notice on the Myosurus shortii

I have the pleasure to announce to the Botanists, that the genus Myosurus hitherto
thought an European genus & composed of a single species, has been detected in the 
United States by Dr. Short of Kentucky, who has discovered [added:it] in the neighbourhood
of Hopkinsville [added:in] Christian County, West Kentucky, and has communicated me specimens
of it; by which [crossed out:and] on comparing them with the European Myosurus figured
in Flora Danica, Lamark Illustrations & I have been enabled to ascertain that
the American [crossed out:species] [added:plant] must form a second species of that genus, to which I have
accordingly dedicated to the discoverer by naming it Myosurus shortii.  This
adds another genus & another New species to our Flora.  I add the comparative
Definitions of the two species, exhibiting their different characters & diagnosis.

[Left column]
Myosurus minimus Linisse [Linnaeus]
Leaves linear-cuneat, broader near the
top and acute.  Scapes as long as the leaves,
thickened twoards the upper part.  Calix
5 leaved, spurs consimilar - petals 5.  Stamens
5-8.  Carpophore as long as the Scapes

[Right column]
Myosurus shortii Raf. [Rafinesque]
Leaves linear obtuse, hardly alternated
below.  Scapes shorter than the leaves,
and filiform.  Calix 3-5 leaved, spurs
membranaceous.  Carpophore shorter than the
scapes.

[End column]

Philada [Philadelphia]  1th May 1819  C. S. Rafinesque

        