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2. Your second objection as to the Asparag. aculeat., 

 with its reference to your Sicilian sort, was but a bare 

 suspicion, and may come under the same excuse. 



8. The Asarum e Terra Mariana, which I have since 

 better referred as I conceive to another genus in Piso, 

 together with the Ttilipifera caroliniensis, which I refer 

 to Hernandez, are indeed inserted in the appendix of 

 your history, which, however they came to slip me, I 

 know not, I own the failure, and acknowledge the obli- 

 gation to have taken notice of them there ; and yet to a 

 person of your goodness and candour, the straitness of 

 my letter-plates will make an excuse for the omission, 

 with lefc,difficulty obtainable. 



4. The Euphrasia lutea latifol. and your Crataogon 

 Westmorland, which you seem so much to dislike, were 

 designed from the best dried patterns I had by me, 

 which perhaps were not so perfect as I could wish j and 

 yet I should be glad to see them better figured anywhere 

 else ; the shanks, indeed, of the flower of the latter might 

 have been made a little longer. 



5. The Hippuris lacustris mansu arenosa was designed 

 from a dry specimen I had from Chiselhurst, where it 

 grows abundantly ; but the leaves, or dentals, are a little 

 too long and sharp-pointed, which was a thing I com- 

 plained of to my graver ; but it seems it passed without 

 amendment. As it is, it bears some likeness to your 

 Mittefol. aquat. Equisetifolium, but in a much nearer 

 degree of resemblance (in my mind) to the Equisetum 



foe fid. sub aqua repens, to which it is next akin. 



6. As for the Gramen spied laxd pyramidali I was 

 positive herein, because Mr. Doody, who communicated 

 the grass to you, communicated your name to me, and 

 affixed it here. The Gram. Phalaroid., I believe, may be 

 your Lusitanicum, since mine was drawn from a dried 

 specimen I long ago gathered in Mr. Morgan's garden, 

 where, it seems, you had yours. The Gram. Cyperoid. 

 lanuginos. was designed from the dried leaf, and rather 

 less than so large as it is. Perhaps it was a plant of 



