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J. E. Smith to Mr. Davall. 



London, July 1791. 



I thank you for your honey, which is an emblem 

 and a proof of your friendship. I shall " eat it 

 in remembrance of you." The honest voiturier 

 charged nothing. 



No. 50. Polypodium montanum, Allioni. Thank 

 you. I must have the two words printed, as they 

 are what you have decreed ; if I trust to my pen, it 

 will unavoidably transgress. 



29. This I found at Vaucluse in wet places. 'Tis 

 quite new, and so thinks Dickson. Suppose we 

 call itfastigiatus, if there be no such name already; 

 it is so like Fucus fastigiatus in miniature. 



42. chrysoleucus, J. E. S. Act. Linn. vol. i. 82. 

 t. 4. f. 5. imbricatus ', foliolis lobatis obtusis : supra 

 pallide sulphureis ; subtus atro-viridibus, scutellis 

 aureis, from Mount Cenis. It certainly is not um- 

 bilicated, though your specimen looks a little so. 

 But we must advert to the habit and scutellcc. 



43. encaustus, J. E. S. ibid. 82. t. 4. f. 6. imbri- 

 catus, foliolis linearibus dichotomis : supra albis ni- 

 tidis ; subtus 7iigris opacis, scutellis badiis. Montan- 

 vert near Chamonix. 



These, my dear friend, I look upon as two of 

 the most original and interesting of my discoveries, 

 being quite unknown and undescribed. Add to 

 these No. 29. and L. cucullatus, and reflect how 

 much better you and / search for plants, than any- 

 body else : but let us not be too vain. Compari- 

 son with you may be in danger of making me so; 



