Linnaeus makes a lot of comments on material received, some of which are these:
The Gnaphalium Leontopodium is identical to Linnaeus’s Filago Leontopodium, and Linnaeus thanks Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin’s for the good description. He asks for seeds.
Linnaeus also asks for seeds of the Silene He is not quite sure of the species.
On Jacquin’s question on the tea bush, Linnaeus responds that he still has two species alive but he does not get flowers.
The Justicia sent is a Digitalis, formerly not in Linnaeus’s collections.
José Celestino Mútis is active in Mexico, and Frédéric Allamand had sent Linnaeus plants from Surinam.
Linnaeus will try to encourage the Queen, Lovisa Ulrika to buy Jacquin’s work (Linnaeus means Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis.
Linnaeus will ask the librarian of the Uppsala University, Berge Frondin, to acquire on behalf of the library all works by Jacquin except Observationum botanicorum [...] pars I-IV et ultima, the three parts of which are already in the library.