Sten Carl Bjelke writes to Linnaeus that problems are coming up. Last week he received a letter from Johann Gottfried Heinzelmann [an extract from this letter is quoted from German], saying that Johann Georg Siegesbeck is very upset and has complained over Linnaeus, who, he claims, has sent among the seeds a parcel labelled Cuculus ingratus, which he named Siegesbeckia in the Hortus Cliffortianus. Siegesbeck has taken offense of that and has decided that he will have no more Swedish correspondence and therefore begs people to turn to others than Johann Georg Gmelin. It is a shame that this happens now when Linnaeus could have a lot of help from him, mainly when Georg Wilhelm Steller soon is supposed to to return with a good collection of seeds and natural history specimens from Kamchatka, America and the Japanese islands.
Bielke has already replied to Siegesbeck that he himself is innocent, and further more, he has told a half-lie, saying that Linnaeus was not at home when the seeds were sent, but the gardener is supposed to have written the text on the label. Bielke is rather worried, and he is afraid that this will cause problems as to other expected items to their collections. Bielke is therefore in need of instructions about how to handle the situation, especially when Steller arrives, but also as to the daily receptions of seeds from China, Sibiria and Tataria which usually are sent directly to Siegesbeck.