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a private opportunity of persuading him (but I la- 
boured in vain) to invert the order; and instead of 
giving new names, and quoting the Linnean ones 
under them, to retain the old names, and remark 
under each how much better any name he thought 
of would accord. 
Mr. Salisbury has a happy firmness, which some 
people will call obstinacy, which makes him rise 
superior to every opponent. 
You are quite right about Agrostis littorals. Dr. 
Withering and I corresponded about the arista of 
the corolla. He had either prepared that page for 
the press, or actually printed it before this took 
place. But, as I told him, my specimens which he 
saw could have convinced him, that both calyx and 
corolla occasionally are with an arista. I do not 
scruple to abominate, without the least qualification, 
the undermining the Linnean fabric. But Thunberg 
is answerable for this envious superficial daubing. 
It would be worthy of you to set the world right in 
this particular. 
Sowerby has failed very much in his figure of 
Fucus kaliformis. My idea when I saw it, was like 
the story of old churches in briefs,—that it must 
be wholly taken down and rebuilt. I find we are to 
have a visit from the French. They will send our 
specimens flying after Gigot d’Orcey’s butterflies, 
and purchasers after both. If they take it into their 
heads to come, it will be too serious a matter to 
joke upon. 
Yours most sincerely, 
S. GOODENOUGH. 
