
          the term "caudex" can be substituted for my "rhizoma"
then I would thank you to adopt it, as you will find I have
several [crossed out: kinds] [added: forms] of "rhizoma" as caespitose.
I do not know what to say about substituting the term "stalk"
stock for "stipes"[?]. Sir Wm [William] Hook. [Hooker] in his Sp. Fil. [Species Filicum] (where the descriptions
are English) uses the term "stipes"[?] which is plural;  and 
I find that Dr [Doctor] Darlington makes use of it in the singular.
but you have my permission to use whatever term you think 
most eligible. I am compelled to laugh at your
remarks on my "Counting-room abbreviations in the explanations 
of the Plates". I shall therefore thank you to supply 
the necessary "the" and "a" when wanted. In relation to 
the position of the [crossed out: reference] explanation to the plates, I would 
state, that a consultation of individuals was held [crossed out: in[?]] here
some years ago (and among these was Dr [Doctor] Pickering) and all 
present thought that the best place was immediately after 
the specific diagnosis, in order the quicker to identify 
a species by a reference to the plate; but to me it appears 
that the position of the explanations is a mere matter of taste 
but one thing I would here say in relation thusto, that 
should you think proper to retain them as they now are, 
that they ought to be set up in larger type, as too many
different kinds of type disfigured a page very much.

I am glad you put in [crossed out: illegible] "Sp. Nov" [Species Nova"] in place of my
abbreviated name, I think I said something to Dr [Doctor] Gray touching 
this point. I got the work on New Holland 
plants, which you so kindly sent on by Mr. Kosner[?], but 
I have not yet received from him the manuscript. 
I shall call for it this evening and return it
        