seed 
&T. 56. ] TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 509 
We must go and see you and all the great West at 
some proper season, spring or late fall. 
I germinated for two years Noliubinm, but soon 
lose them. If you can, send me some seeds this fall 
to try once more... . 
TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 
October 14, 1867. 
. Yes, I did receive your address,! read it hastily, 
and sent it to “Silliman’s Journal” to be reprinted. 
It was too late for the September number, but will be 
the leading article in the November number. I have 
read a proof and am daily expecting a printed sheet, 
which I can send to you, with one or two little remarks. 
I was exceedingly pleased with it; so is Professor 
Henry. We both wondered how you could have so 
exactly hit not one, but several nails on the head, as 
you have done. It will be much read here, and will be 
truly useful 
You remind me that I ought to have criticised your 
working of Australian Composite. The trouble is, 
that, except North American genera, these things have 
long been quite out of my head. It will be unsafe 
for me to approve or otherwise till I ean get at work 
a little over them, which it is not likely I can at pres- 
ent. I just fancy that in your dislike of monotypic 
genera — which you abhor as nature does a vacuum — 
you may have lumped up the angiantheous genera 
rather too much 
I am straining every nerve to get into a position to 
get at a synopsis of North American plants, and my 
present work upon Bolander’s collection is a part of 
1 Presidential address by George Bentham, meeting of the Lin- 
nzan Society, May 24, 1867. 
