16 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



The little plant here alluded to, when first gathered by the 

 young collector, was believed by him to be a new species of 

 Galium, or ladies' bedstraw, a genus which it closely resembles. 



He sent it as a discovery to Dr. Taylor, and this mistake pro- 

 bably assisted in forming the habit of accurate investigation for 

 which he afterwards became so distinguished. 



To the Same. 



Miltown Malbay, Sept., 1830. 

 Yesterday I added to the list of Miltown shells the 

 Nautilus spirula of Turton (S. Australis), a most interesting 

 addition. It is the largest of our native Nautili, and has seldom 

 been found on British shores, though common among West 

 Indian shells. I have been busy with Conferva? during this 

 visit, and have scarcely looked for shells or phaanogamous 

 plants. I have got a new book on animals, " Fleming's Brit. 

 Animals," which contains beasts, birds, fishes, mollusca, radiata 

 (*'. e., urchins, star-fish, &c), and zoophytes. On the whole 

 it seems a good, " enlightened " book, although it contains some 

 blunders worthy of the darkest ages of natural history — more 

 especially in bivalve shells. 



To the Same. 



Dec, 1830. 

 I have been to Cork, where I added Geranium rotundi- 

 folium — >at least the seeds thereof. It is, passim, about Cork. 

 I have received a letter from Bicheno, telling me, to my no 

 small diversion, that a plant of Veronica, which I sent him to 

 ascertain the species, afforded great puzzlement to the learned 

 in London. None of them — no, not Robert Brown himself — had 

 ever seen anything like it. I enclose a branch of it ; the main 

 plant I am sending to Bicheno. The indefatigable Don (as 

 Smith calls him) fancied it might be a variety of V. agrestis, 

 but such as had never before been seen. 



1830 is the year for revolutions. Amongst others I have got 

 a new cabinet, and have my herbarium bound in eight volumes 

 (not yet from the bookbinder's). The plants will be arranged 

 in natural orders, and I have a page for every plant in Hooker, 

 and a few blank leaves at the end of each volume for appendix. 



