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and which I have from the Grimsel. I am the more 

 disposed to think the pili may take the rufous colour 

 from age, as the pubescence of the calyces in Trifo- 

 lium incarnatum becomes quite rufous in dried spe- 

 cimens, and as I observed no such colour in the re- 

 cent plant which I saw in La Chenal's garden. There 

 is a Tussilago in your Linn. Herb. masked. paradoxa? 

 J. E. S. conf. T. spuria Retz. Obs. Bot. Fasc. I. 

 p. 29. Tab. 2. Forgive me : you know my intentions. 

 The Chenopodia are terrible. I now find that what 

 Haller refers to, rubrum Linn, (which I have not yet 

 found here) is murale. This is not uncommon, and 

 I did not see rubrum even in Haller's habitation, 

 the pays d'aigle, which is the seat of Chenopodia. 



How I long to see your new coloured work ! 

 You tell me I am good, because I have been in 

 search of your Lichen cucullatus. Remember, my 

 good friend, that all the little I can do to render you 

 service, is to me the most agreeable duty, and the 

 greatest pleasure I can know. I am dissatisfied in 

 not having in my power the hundredth part of what 

 I could wish to do. It is curious that Wyttenbach 

 should have given you Stellaria cerastoides for Ce- 

 rastium alpinum. He sent it to me by the name of 

 Arenaria multicaulis. He should stick to his mi- 

 nerals. I have not yet Cerastium alpinum, how- 

 ever strange it may appear. 



Your inestimable present of Diapensia lapponica 

 is framed and glazed, with your label, as your hand- 

 writing is to me a treasure. I have had two cases 

 made for my Herbarium, as yours are with a top 

 in pyramid, and Wedgwood's medallion of Lin- 



