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well, but like Boott inclines to make too many species. 
He insists upon describing the small form of C. Hitch- 
cockiana from Dr. Sartwell and Kentucky as a dis- 
tinct species, in which he may be right. He wished to 
name it after me, but I declined the honor, and have 
transferred it to Dr. Sartwell, the discoverer, whose 
name it is to bear... . 
Delessert received me very kindly when I called on 
him. I must call again soon, and consult especially 
his rich library. He showed me a list he had just 
ordered from New York; among which of course was 
our “ Flora.” I should have offered him a copy, but 
now it is scarcely worth while. . . . I shall not see 
De Candolle here. Delessert does not expect him until 
May. I shall leave the books and parcels for him 
with Delessert, and make De Candolle take back to 
Geneva with him all my parcels that I do not wish 
to take with me to the south. 
April 2, evening, or rather April 3, as it is past 
midnight. — I have worked to-day as hard as I could 
jump from ten to half past five o’clock at the her- 
barium général of the Museum de Paris, and have 
finished. Apart from Michaux’s plants, of which they 
have nearly a set distributed, they are wretchedly poor 
in North American species; almost none of Lamarck 
and Poiret. I except the plants given by LeConte, 
Torrey, ete., which are arranged but not incorporated. 
The present Gallery of Botany is exceedingly fine and 
spacious, and well planned. I have gone carefully 
through all Michaux’s herbarium (from your limited 
time you have made some bad slips in the Carices of 
Michaux, which Gay, I am sorry to say, has found 
out), noting all dubious matters to be settled by ex- 
amination of Richard’s set. I have gone through De 
