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single grains or parts of compound fruits, as in 
Uvaria :—carpella (plural ?); but should it not be 
carpiola’? as the original word is Greek. I do 
not however admit it at all, any more than his 
sepala for segments or leaves of a calyx. I must 
adopt Schreber’s genus Spartina, for Dactylis 
stricta: it is very distinct. Is not Spartina a good 
name, alluding to the broom-like, or cord-like stems 
and leaves? ‘The French have subsequently called 
it Limnetis,—a good name; but it ought not surely 
to supersede the older one. 
Mr. Coke is too good and too prosperous to 
escape envy. I regret that party should make such 
menas himenemies. As to the bulk of each party, 
it matters little. I esteem him one of the best of 
human beings. I allude not to politics, which I 
often regret should disturb so fine and happy a 
mind as his. 
Mr. Roscoe is preparing for our Society a very 
excellent distribution of the species of Canna, now 
very numerous. 
I am ever, most respectfully, 
Your Lordship’s, 
J. E. SMitH. 
The Bishop of Carlisle to Sir J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, March 14, 1822. 
When I put my two strokes over MUgnUs, &e., 
it was more to show you my plan, than any wish 
that you should mark words, dissyllables or others, 
