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return. We are now here for a while with my wife’s 
family, unbending; yet I long to be at work again. 
I take advantage of my present leisure to chat a 
little with you, my good friend; as I could not enjoy 
your conversation in person, on account of our se- 
veral engagements. 
If you see Exotic Botany, you will observe in the 
Number for August what I have done about Globba 
marantina and other Scitaminee. I flatter myself 
I have done some good in this Order, and shall do 
more. Mr. Roscoe, in a most excellent paper to 
the Linnean Society, first led the way to a true 
knowledge of the genera of these difficult plants, 
founded on the form of the filament. 
I have lately had a most bountiful present from 
my old friend Dr. Buchanan, long resident in India, 
of his whole.herbarium of Nepal and Mysore plants; 
about 1500 species, with all his MS. descriptions, 
and near 200 fine drawings. He has given me them 
entirely, for publication in Exotic Botany. 
I mean to go home the beginning of next week, 
and, except one or two little excursions, I shall be 
stationary here through all the winter. My work 
laid out for the season is to finish Flora Britannica; 
to write a popular Introduction to Botany; to finish 
and publish Linneus’s Lapland Tour, besides going 
on with Mora Greca, and my two periodical works. 
I like a variety of employment; and we lead a quiet 
domestic life that allows me to be very much mas- 
ter of my time. 
The first fasciculus of Vora Greca is printed, but 
waits, I believe, for the coloured frontispiece. 
