
          spring of 1841.


 The Mexican and Californian plants 
 you kindly offer me will be now acceptable
 I cannot this year purchase a single 
 plant - all my spare money will be
 absorbed by the printing of Plantas Hartwegianas
 and I have so many books I must keep up
 so I have been obliged to forego [Rendlers?] 
 plants.


 I have been very busy for the last 
 fortnight with Dr. Wallich distributing
 his Gramineae. So many persons are 
 down on his lists that there are not 
 many species that go round the whole. 
 There will however be one  or perhaps 
 two sets for you & Gray such as they 
 are and a few very interesting plants 
 amongst them.


 The 12th vol. of the Prodromus is 
 for advanced printing. It contains
 chiefly my Lobiata which have 
 given me a great deal of trouble 
 and the Manuscript has now been so 
 long out of my hands that I fear it will be
 still a little in [arrears/error?]


 Yours ever sincerely
 George Bentham

        