
          any Herbm [Herbarium] & the habitat is "head of the New River on Mount
 Washington". Its locality is curious as being isolated. I have
 Silenc Armeria from two habitats near Boston. Never cease
 interesting yourself about Elliotts Herbm [Herbarium]. It should the 
 religiously pursued, & will no one give us his life? Would
 not some member of his family tell us what he was & 
 collect his letters? It is very singular how few of his
 plants are in our collections. He does not appear to have
 corresponded with Smith or Banks much. If you send me
 Schweinitz's plants I will do my best to dispose of them.
 I sent him thru Wallich some of our Violae to [ensure?]
 for me, but I heard nothing from him. I doubt your 
 V. blanda [Viola blanda] being clandestina [Viola clandestina], for I think the last has yellow
 flowers. I gathered it largely in N [New] Hampshire 20 years ago
 with Apetalus [Viola Apetala] flowers, & Bigelow told me a year or two
 after the roots we gathered produced yellow perfect [flowers?].
 I seldom hear from Hooker. He has much on his hands
 Bentham is here, finishing his Labiatae. He read a paper
 on Hosackia at the last meeting of the Lin. [Linnean] Socy [Society]. Brown
 recd [received] the parcel you sent by Lewis. I shall get a part of 
 our Trans [Transactions] out in a week or two, in which he has a fine
 paper in Rafflesia. We expect one also on the embryos of 
 Pinus from him. He is too slow & fastidious. Had he the 
 industry of Linneaus he would leave a reputation behind
 him equal to Newtons. He is a miracle of Botanical wisdom
 & learning, & might if he chose write a Genera Plantm [Plantarum]
 as easily & rapidly Scott wrote a novel. We shall not have
 his like again. His vast erudition appears intuitive, & the
 noble integrity of his mind, his perfect candour to the  
 claims of others, his love of truth, justice, the beautiful 
 manner in which he pays his brief but delicate compliments 
 to names long past & generally forgotten stamp
 him as a great & a comprehensive mind. He is fairly jealous
 of his own great fame, but no one so generously asserts the 
 claims of others to respect & gratitude.

        