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la Pylaie’s herbarium completely and carefully ; I have 
examined the herbarium given by Humboldt, — not 
complete but said to be as large as Kunth’s own set 
or more so, and labeled by Kunth; I have looked at 
everything here which I thought could interest us, but 
some I found not, such as Cereocarpus; I have ex- 
amined some other separate sets of the same kind. I 
am now ready to glance through Jussieu’s herbarium, 
which is said to contain many Lamarck and Poiret ; 
to spend a little time in Richard’s, a few hours more 
for Desfontaines at Webb’s, and perhaps Berlandier’s ! 
plants, though these are distributed through Webb’s 
immense collection; this I can do, however, in evenings. 
Then a morning or two at Delessert’s, which will be 
more occupied with examination of books than plants, 
will, I believe, finish. Webb has promised to give 
me some plants of Labilliardiére, whose herbarium he 
bought, as he did Mercier’s, in which he got many of 
Nuttall’s plants. He has also a collection of Lady 
Dalhousie’s from North America, all Drummond’s, 
ete., etc.; so he is pretty rich in North American 
plants, but they are-not all arranged yet. Webb has 
most generously presented me with a complete copy 
of L’Héritier’s Works (in sheets) except the “ Cor- 
nus,” which I have this day bought of the Jew Meil- 
hae, and for which I was obliged to give six franes. I 
shall have the whole bound in two large folio volumes : 
“ Cornus ” and “ Sertum Anglicum ” in one, “ Stirpes 
Nove” and “Geraniologia”’ in the other. I think 
thus far that the few copies of the “ Flora” I have 
given away have turned to good account. I meant 
1 Jean Louis Berlandier, died 1851; a Belgian. Established as an 
apothecary at Matamoras, 1827 or 1828. The first botanist to ex- 
plore New Spain. He also made large collections in western Texas. 
