58 EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. [1836, 
for the trouble you have taken in naming the set of 
mosses, and especially for the beautiful parcel of 
British mosses you were so good as to send me, which 
were truly welcome. All British plants are so, as 
I have next to none in my herbarium; but nothing 
could be more acceptable than such a complete and 
authentic suit of the mosses of your country. 
to the Sandwich Island plants, I hardly know 
what to say. Supposing they might be of some use 
to you in connection with other collections, I copied 
the brief notes I made on studying them very hur- 
riedly indeed, and placed them at your disposal. I 
did not possess sufficient means for determining them 
in a satisfactory manner, and fear I have coneniided 
errors in many eases. You will doubtless detect these 
at once, and if, on the whole, you think proper to pub- 
lish them in the “* Companion to the Botanical Maga- 
zine,” may I ask you to revise the paper, and freely 
make such corrections and alterations as you think 
proper. In that case, if you think the notes worthy 
of publication, I should not object; yet you are equally 
at liberty to use them in any other way. The parcel 
contained a specimen of a Composita (from Mouna 
Kea) which puzzled me extremely, and I was unable 
to ascertain its genus by Lessing. The anthers are 
free, or slightly coherent, in all the flowers I examined. 
Since the parcel was transmitted to you I have seen a 
specimen of Rhus (from Sandwich Islands) resem- 
bling the one in the parcel, except in having pubescent 
leaves. The latter is therefore improperly charac- 
terized, and, perhaps will prove to be a well-known 
species. I shall hope to receive other and more com- 
plete specimens from Mr. Diell, and if I am so fortu- 
nate will gladly share with so esteemed a correspond- 
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