468 ON SPECIES 



De Vries has just finished a monograph of Angiopteris, 

 making 60 species out of what Daddy, I, and Jock Smith 

 call 1. What with De Vries, Klotzsch, and Steudel we shall 

 have Phaenogamic Botany messed like Algae, except we 

 show a bold front. 



Again; November 4, 1852 : 



We have pitched into Clematis. Steudel has 40 Indian 

 species, Wallich 18, and we 12 ! And yet we have all 

 Wallich's ! Koyle's ! ! Edgeworth's III 1 etc., etc. species. 

 The fact is that there are only 15 species in India and 

 that's a plenty ! The M. Indica will cut up ridiculously 

 small. 



And there is a world unsaid in the brief ejaculation (May 

 18, 1858) : ' So Sender 2 makes 106 Oxalises humph.' 



To Col. Munro 



September 9, 1853. 



I have rough polished Berberideae and had such a job 

 to get through the B. vulgaris and aristata groups, which 

 by the way I cannot distinguish specifically from one another. 

 I quite expect great opposition in the first group and I may 

 state once for all, that I take no person's opinion on them as 

 worth a snap, who has not studied the varieties of B. vulgaris 

 itself ; and no one who has not can have any idea of what 

 they are ! I have also carefully studied all the garden species 

 of the N. Hemisphere. 



Madden 3 came here two days ago and spent the morning. 



1 Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-81) was an Indian civilian who 

 had studied botany under Graham. He contributed papers on the botany 

 of India and Aden, and on the Indian Caryophyllaceae to the Flora of Brit. 

 Ind. 



2 Otto Wilhelm Bonder (1812-81). He was the author, or part author, of 

 several works, Plantae Preisscanae, 1844-7 ; Revision der Heliopticleen, 1846 ; 

 Flora Hamburgensis, 1851 ; Die Algen des tropischen Australians, 1871 ; Algae. 

 Ost. Afrikanae, 1879 ; and Algae Australianae hactenus cognitae, and he assisted 

 Harvey with his Flora Capensis. 



Edward Madden (d. 1856). He was Lieut.-Col. Bengal Artillery, and 

 President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, F.R.S. Edinburgh. He col- 

 lected in Simla and Kumaon. He published Brief Observations on some of the 

 Pines and other Coniferous Trees of the Northern Himalaya, in the Journ. Agric, 

 Soc. of India, 1845, and a Supplement to it in 1850, and Nepal Plants in 

 1856. The genus Maddenia Bosaceae was called after him by Hooker and 

 Thomson. 



