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ciosa planta of which Sowerby might make me a 

 good drawing, all four in exact colouring, I would 

 live six months on bread and water to pay for them. 

 What with you, and the English gardens, I have 

 some cruel moments of maladie du pays. Your 

 letters and these drawings will be a temporary cure. 

 I could not exist under the idea of not returning to 

 England, but I certainly cannot during my aunt's 

 life. 



Jacq. FL Austr. gives as a true distinction of 

 Senecio sarracenicus and nemorensis, 8 radii in sar- 

 racen. and 5 in nemorens. Now all the plants I 

 have seen in Switzerland answer to Jacquin's ne- 

 morens. which, according to Haller, is non satis 

 certa civis ; but Haller's authority in the citation of 

 Linnaeus is to me of little force. Do you find Jac- 

 quin's observation good in the specimens of Herb. 

 Linn.? I have made no note on the radii. I am more 

 and more embarrassed with Hieracium alpinum, 

 and have several to communicate to you : — some 

 scapo nudo H. alp. Allion. non Linn. Herb.; — an- 

 other with a narrow leaf on the upper part of the 

 stalk, somewhat likeLightfoot's figure; and I almost 

 suspect that the pili take the rufous colour in the 

 dried specimens from age, as I have seen gradations 

 in the Herbariums. As to the colour, I hardly dare 

 say anything of this plant, and would wish to leave it 

 to you, and will communicate what I have of speci- 

 mens. I do not mean to say that the plant of Al- 

 lioni and many others be the alpinum: I think it is 

 not ; — but the other is much less frequent, which I 

 have gathered on the heights of Great St. Bernard, 



