
          those plants I have already distributed of Wights, given as yet not
one to Brown or Lambert: Brown asked for specimens of two orders
in particular, and [added: of them] he shall have the best collection unless I see by
Wallich's catalogue that he has already got specimens from him.
The British Museum shall not receive one specimen, although they have not
got one of the best sets from Wights former distributions, as they have not
once said so much as "thank-you," for what they did get._ Hooker and Greville
must have [ crossed out:some of] the best collections, and next to them the hard-working
and well deserving Nees von Esenbeck: the two first I leave at the top of
the list at Wight's request although I know that Hooker has many of the
[added:plants] already from Wight of Wallich [added: & Greville does not [?] attend to plants:] [crossed out: and] I would therefore have even from the
Nees von Esenbeck above both of them, for he was low on the list at the 
first division: but I have confounded the affair, and put him in between
Hooker & Greville. then comes [added: one on] my own list, viz yourself, and for this reason
that although your herbarium be rich in general, it is poor in Indian plants,
and you got none from Wallich. I have [added: also] laid it down as a kind of rule
that where only three or four specimens exist, I give one to the French
Museum _ one to the Berlin Museum _ and one to you _ and if the plant
be quite new, and not likely to be in Wallich's at the Linnean Society
of London, I supply them first (but I give them nothing unless in
such a case), then France, Germany, and America, thus dispensing
the species as widely as possible: where there are plenty of each or at
all events sufficient to go over the half, you come in for the fourth
best specimen. I fear however you will say that bad is the [last/least?]

I have said that I have begun to distribute: in other words, a friend
(no botanist) came [added: about a month ago] to see me for a few days, and as the weather was bad,
I took the opportunity of setting him down to write the numbers on the
labels while I distributed: in about ten days we exhausted about 4000
labels, and here I came to a pause, for my friend left me _ I expect
however to resume the work again soon - I have not yet commenced
on the Cyperaceae, but you shall be remembered.

"When are we to have DeCandolle's 5th volume?" you ask; and I am in ignorance.
I cannot begin my 2nd volume of the Prod. fl. Pena., till DeCandoll's is out;  because
DeCandolle's in Wights [crossed out: illegible] contributions merely notices Wights plants, while there
must be many species in herbaria from the Penninsula that Wight had not, and
which ought to be introduced into our work: besides D.C. only sent us the specific [char.]
of the new species. Lindley is to do the the Asters for him, and I fear imperfectly. I have
got all my Asters named by Nees von Esenbeck, to whom I sent them: there are one or
two new species. One is A. Drummondi, another A. Arnottii, both from Drummond; a
third is A. Greenei (the "A. Radula?" of Greene, if I recollect well) from Boston.
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Kunth's ennumeration is the last work on Gramineae, but is unquestionably the
worst: if he does not understand American grasses well, he does not comprehend the
Indian ones at all: he describes plenty of new species without giving himself the least
trouble to find out whether or not the plant has been already described (badly, perhaps)
by older botanists. _
I have not yet received my plants from Wight, but expect
a Cargo this winter. _ You ask if Wight's contributions are to be 
incorporated in our 2nd volume? _ the Peninsular species will, and perhaps the Ceylon ones,
but not the Bengal, Napal, or Chinese. _ Perhaps you are not aware
that Hooker, Fl. Bor-Amer. is at present at a stand, as also the Book of Beverley's
voyage, owing to the failure of Richter the publisher: but we expect an arrangement
to be made soon about them, so that they can proceed. _ Frequenets' [Freycinet's]
voyage is expensive, I should suppose about 60 or 100 francs: I have not a copy.
Our list of Sandwich island plants was exceedingly imperfect; and how could
it be otherwise, for the Surgeon and his assistants did little but play all day
long on the violin instead of attending to drying plants. Lindley has however
a good collection (from Macrae) so has Hooker from Macrae, Menzies, and
I believe Douglass_ but few are yet described [added: except by Sir James Smith in Rees' Cyclopedia]. In Nees v. Esenbecks [?].
now before me are descriptions of several ^[added: new] Gramae. [Gramineae] x Cyperae. [Cyperaceae] from these
islands, which I could copy out for you if you wished them: I presume his [work?]
is long ere this published in Germany, but in what work I know not.
        