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I do not like this Indian nor this Algerine war. 
Wars are prolific monsters, and soon people the 
world with those of their own kind. Would that 
war was completely banished from mankind! 
My son Edmund has been at Malvern. He was 
puzzled there with that variety of Ervum tetrasper- 
mum which has footstalks with one flower only. I 
do not recollect ever to have seen your variety of 
I. Xiphium. 
S. CARLISLE. 
From the same. 
Dear Sir James, Rose Castle, Sept. 15, 1819. 
I will begin answering the last matter which you 
mention,—your new edition of the Flora: I hope 
that you will not abandon that idea. Had you not 
so very lately given a new edition of your Com- 
pendium complete, I should have advised an edi- 
tion of it, and also have wished that you had an- 
nounced your intentions of publishing your edition 
for the ladies, and stating what you had got already 
for the Flora. 
As that edition of the Compendium cannot be 
nearly taken off yet, I fear you must risk your edi- 
tion at once. It must be a most respectable work, 
far beyond what has been produced in any country 
under the sun. I cannot say anything to the En- 
glish Flora, not knowing your plan. The old plan 
of your Flora Britannica was, I always thought, 
extremely good, and such as needed no mending. 
