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Calix: tubus brevis parvus campanulatus subcoloratus fauce fimbriato
subclausus limbus in lacinias 5. lanceolatas patentes longas lete caeruleas
ad faucem divisus. Corolla monopetala, tubus brevis angustus stricte
germen involvens. Limbus patulus quinquepartitus quasilabiatus, fauce
■coloratus subhirsutus albidus, laciniis subrotundis subequalibus medio
inferiore paulo majori basi colorato prominulo pulchre e purpureo
ceru-lescens. Stam. fi[l]amenta 4r brevia versus faucem floris sub labio
superiore porrecta, Antherae subrotundae in fauce. Germen obverse conicum.
Stilus longitudine tubi floris. Stigma obtusum in fauce floris, pericarp.
e germine videtur capsula bilocularis bispermis?
There is another curious little piant here \v.h at first sight 1 took
for the countess Linnea But on Examination have concluded it
other-ways. Inc[l]osed I send you a perfect specimen & some of the former
flowers not well preserved for I have not yet so much as browen-paper
books for this purpose. but least any change should happen in the
specimen I send you, I take the liberty of sending the Description whith it.
But it some times rises above a foot in height in Shady places & is
cheefly found about the Sulphur & at the foot of the mountain.
Sauvagesia foliis oblongis nitidis serrato-dentatis, basi stipulis ciliatis
ornatis.
Calix pentaphyllus patens, foliolis lanceolatis basi tumidis post
lapsum floris erectis, capsulam complexantibus. Corolla duplex, exterior
pentaphilla patens petalis ovatis utrinque acutis. Interior pentaphylla erecta,
petalis angustis lanceolatis stricte genetalia involventibus. Nectaria
filamenta numerosa parva antheris parvis albidis ornata corollam interiorem
singunt undique. Stam. filamenta brevia quinque, antheris longiusculis
majoribus erecta intra corollam interiorem. Pist. germen ovatum, stilus
brevis simplex longitudine fere antherarum Stigma simplex, pericarp.
capsula ovata unilocularis, 3bus striis interne notata, quibus affiguntur
semina plura rotunda sub rugosa.
I have many other things to send you but as my papers are not
yet come up nor meself settled to any satisfaction, I eant write more.
Excuse my writing in English, I have reason to think you know it
-sufficiently & it is vastly more convenient to me now to do so. I would
be much oblidged to you for a sett of your Systema, species & genera
piant, and some acct of any new or uncommun observations you miglit
have made in the Materia Medica, here we use James powders in
smaller doses vvith great success in the irregular remittants after bleeding,
it is the Crocus Metalorum reduced to a calx with a certain quantity
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