
          papers in Hooker's Companion and prepare a general synopsis
 for de Candolle's Prodromus. I should be unwilling therefore to
 borrow specimens at present but should feel much obliged
 could you at any time spare me from among your duplicates
 any new ones or any of the following


 Good examinable specimens of Gratiola [negluta?] Porr. G. virginiana
 and other allied species 


 Gratiola tetragona and [migulocarpa?]
 Lindonia grandiflora Nutt
 Herpertis microntha, Brownie Nutt
 [Limonella tennifolia?]
 [Pentilemon?] granta Nutt [?] [?] [enconthera?] [Tas.?] [coveraluam?] [?]
 [athiderm?] Nutt grandiflorum Nutt ambiguous Torrey
 [Orthocarpus luteus?] Nutt authentic
 [Euchronia and Cortelliya?] any authentic ones except E. coccinea


 The Scrophularinum of Nuttall's papers published in the town [dead?] Nut
 Sc. Philad. and in the Trans Amer Philos. Soc.


 I am afraid there are no Californian duplicates that you
 have not had and Douglas scarcely gathered any Cyperaceae or
 Gramineae. Of those we have in our gardens a set is ordered to be 
 dried for you in the course of the season.


 I have just been on a weeks visit to Paris the [keeper?]
 of the [Ellisium?] of the fund in du [?] are very active in
 putting in order and augmenting their collection. De Candolle
 I am sorry to hear has been and still continues seriously ill
 though I hope out of all danger. His compositions were just
 finished when he was taken ill and several sheets are
 already printed off.


 Ever my dear Sir
 Yours sincerely
 George Bentham
             
        