102 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



am doing. I have just sent to the printer the corrected proof of 

 Terebinthacese, to which that slow fellow has only yet reached. 

 At the rate he gets on it will be August before the magnum 

 opus sees the light. I have called a genus after the poet Crabbe. 

 What think you of Crdbbea pungens ? He was very fond of 

 botany, and has many very pretty passages about plants. See 

 the descriptions of " Nature's ever-during stains," in the old 

 church, and the Flora in the " Lover's Journey," &c, passim. 

 Talking of poetry reminds me to tell you my motto for the 

 " Genera." Tis from Coleridge, as follows : — 



And each little herb 

 That grows on mountain bleak or tangled forest 

 You have learned to name. 



You will find the lines in " Eemorse," where also is said : — 



I would climb np an ice-glazed precipice 

 To pluck a weed you wanted. 



I thought of this, but the first is better — I have sent a ream 

 of paper to the Zoolu country, and one is going to Litaku, 

 another to Klaarwater, and another is gone to Grahamstown, 

 where more will probably follow : the last is to the 72nd 

 regiment, who will, I hope, collect briskly for me, as they are 

 fine intelligent fellows, and promise fair enough. I wish you 

 Mould sometimes write and let me know how things go on : 

 remember, I am shut out of all civilized society. 



To the Same. 



March, 1838. 

 You will be glad to hear that I have found a very pleasant 

 botanical friend in a Mr. Bunbury, who has come out with 

 General Napier on a pleasure tour. It is quite refreshing to 

 meet a real botanist after so long a fast. We were up Table 

 Mountain last w T eek just in time to gather the last remaining 

 flowers of Disa grandifiora. 



"When I have my case made, I shall attempt to put Disa 

 grandifiora in its natural circumstances, and try whether it will 

 blossom with more success. If you have living plants of it at 

 Loddiges', perhaps you may wish to know what the natural 

 localities of this plant are. First, as all the world knows, it grows 

 on the summit of Table Mountain, and nowhere else. This 



