i843-'862] HOMOLO 279 



Looking to your note, I may add that certainly the fifter • 606 



alternating bundles of spiral v< !- 



lil in some ca re present in many- orchids. The 



inner whorl of anther duct oftenest ab 1 mi. I 



keep clear of ..'/ stasia? though I h many a longin 



look at it in B tucr. 



I hope I may be well enough t <x\ 



Thursday, but I have been very seedy lately. I see th 

 a paper at the Royal on the same night, which will m< 1 

 concern you, on fossil plants of B that I suppose I 



shall not have you ; but you must read my paper when 

 published, as I shall very much like to hear what you think. 

 It seems to me a large field fur experiment. I shall make 

 use of my Orchid little volume in illustrating modification 

 of species doctrine, but I keep very, very doubtful whether 

 I am not doing a foolish action in publishing. How I wish 

 you would kce: our old intention and write a bo »k on 



plants. 1 



To G. Bentham. Letter 607 



Down, Nov. 26th [1S61]. 



Our notes have crossed on the road. I know it is an 

 honour to have a paper in the Transactions, and I am much 

 obliged to you for proposing it, but I should greatly prefer to 

 publish in the Journal. Nor does this apply exclusively 

 to myself, for in old days at the Geological Society I a'. 

 protested against an abstract appearing when the paper itself 

 might appear. I abominate also the waste o\' time (and it 

 would take me a day) in making an abstract. If the referee 

 on my paper should recommend it to appear in the Tra 

 actions, will you 1' ind as to lay my earne>t request bet" 



the Council that it may be permitted to appear in the 



1 Apostasia has two fertile anthers like placed 



by Kn^ler and Prantl in the Apo-tasiea? or Apostasiinar, amony the 

 Orchideae, by others in a distinct but closely allied group. 



1 "On the Two Forms, or Dimorphic Condition, in the Species of the 

 Genus Primula^ Linn. Soc. /. urn., [81 2. lie did read the paper, but 

 it cost him the next day in bed. s, III., p. 299. 



3 Oswald Heer, "The Fossil Flora of Bovey Tra<-< Trans. 



R. S -, p. 1039. 



* Possibly a book similar to that described in Letter 696. 



