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shall be truly glad whenever you and Mrs. Smith 
will direct your steps to see us here. 
Iam glad to find Prodromus Flore Grece is in 
such progress. How I long to see Mora Britan- 
nica complete! 
Your very affectionate 
S. CARLISLE. 
J. EE. Smith to the Bishop of Carlisle. 
My dear Lord, Norwich, Nov. 17, 1808. 
If youare so kind as to write me often such amu- 
sing and instructive letters, I shall be a troublesome 
correspondent. , 
I have Theophrastus by Bodzeus a Stapel, and 
often consult it; but as Sibthorp’s professed object 
was to illustrate Dioscorides, it is not my business 
to go further, at least in the Flora Greca or Pro- 
dromus. Now I want your Lordship’s kind advice, 
both critical and botanical.—Mr. Salisbury (whom 
I wish in this case to consider as an indifferent per- 
son) makes ymphea alba a distinct genus from 
lutea, and I think rightly: I have said so in my 
Introduction, page 385. He calls it Castaha, from 
casta (chaste), because the petals “chastely fold over 
and cover the organs of impregnation”;—such is his 
idea. I should like it better if it could allude to the 
Castalian fountain. Now I am about to insert these 
plants in my Prodromus Flore Grece. If you will 
be so good as to turn to Dioscorides, you will find 
NV. alba is his true Nupdaa, which therefore ought 
to have been retained as Wymphea, especially as 
