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well, but like Boott inclines to make too many species. 

 He insists upon describing the small form of C. Hitch- 

 cockiana from Dr. Sartwell and Kentucky as a dis- 

 tinct species, in which he may be right. He wished to 

 name it after me, but I declined the honor, and have 

 transferred it to Dr. Sartwell, the discoverer, whose 

 name it is to bear. . . . 



Delessert received me very kindly when I called on 

 him. I must call again soon, and consult especially 

 his rich library. He showed me a list he had just 

 ordered from New York ; among which of course was 

 our " Flora." I should have offered him a copy, but 

 now it is scarcely worth while. ... I shall not see 

 De Candolle here. Delessert does not expect him until 

 May. I shall leave the books and parcels for him 

 with Delessert, and make De Candolle take back to 

 Geneva with him all my parcels that I do not wish 

 to take with me to the south. 



April 2, evening, or rather April 3, as it is past 

 midnight. I have worked to-day as hard as I could 

 jump from ten to half past five o'clock at the her- 

 barium general of the Museum de Paris, and have 

 finished. Apart from Michaux's plants, of which they 

 have nearly a set distributed, they are wretchedly poor 

 in North American species ; almost none of Lamarck 

 and Poiret. I except the plants given by LeConte, 

 Torrey, etc., which are arranged but not incorporated. 

 The present Gallery of Botany is exceedingly fine and 

 spacious, and well planned. I have gone carefully 

 through all Michaux's herbarium (from your limited 

 time you have made some bad slips in the Carices of 

 Michaux, which Gay, I am sorry to say, has found 

 out), noting all dubious matters to be settled by ex- 

 amination of Richard's set. I have gone through De 



