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la Pylaie's herbarium completely and carefully ; I have 

 examined the herbarium given by Hiunboldt, — 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 Cercocarpus ; 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 wiU be 

 more occupied with examination of books than plants, 

 will, I believe, finish. Webb has promised to give 

 me some plants of Labilliardi^re, 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 Drtunmond's, 

 etc., 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'H^ritier's Works (in sheets) except the " Cor- 

 nus," which I have this day bought of the Jew Meil- 

 hac, and for which I was obliged to give six francs. I 

 shall have the whole bound in two large folio volumes : 

 " Cornus " and " Sertum Anglicum " in one, " Stirpes 

 Novae" 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. 



