468 ON SPECIES 
De Yries has just finished a monograph of Angicypteris, 
making 60 species out of what Daddy, I, and Jock Smith 
call 1. What T^ith De Vries, Klotzsch, and Steudel we shall 
have Phaenogamic Botany messed like Algae, except we 
show a bold front. 
Again, November 4, 1852 : 
We have pitched into Clematis. Steudel has 40 Indian 
species, Walhch 18, and we 12 ! And yet we have all 
Walhch's ! Eoyle's ! ! Edgeworth's ! ! ! ^ etc., etc. species. 
The fact is that there are only 15 species in India and 
that's a plenty ! The Fl. Indica vnW cut up ridiculously 
small. 
And there is a world unsaid in the brief ejaculation (May 
18, 1858) : ' So Sonder^ makes 106 Oxalises— humph.' 
To Col. Munro 
September 9, 1853. 
I have rough polished Berberideae and had such a job 
to get through the B. vulgaris and aristata groups, which 
by the way I cannot distinguish specifically from one another. 
I quite expect great opposition in the first group and I may 
state once for all, that I take no person's opinion on them as 
worth a snap, who has not studied the varieties of B. vulgaris 
itself ; and no one who has not can have any idea of what 
they are ! I have also carefully studied all the garden species 
of the N. Hemisphere. 
Madden ^ came here two days ago and spent the morning. 
1 IVIichael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-81) was an Indian civilian who 
had studied botany under Graham. He contributed papers on the botany 
of India and Aden, and on the Indian Caryophyllaceae to the Flora of Brit. 
Ind. 
2 Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-81). He was the author, or part author, of 
several works, Plantae Preisscanae, 1844-7; Revision der HcUopticleev, 1846; 
Flora Hamhurgensis, 1851; Die Algen des tropischen Australiens, 1871; Algae 
Ost. Afrikanae, 1879 ; and Algae Australiarvae hactenus cognitae, and he assisted 
Harvey with his Flora Capensis. 
3 Edward Madden {d. 1856). He was Lieut. -Col. Bengal Artillery, and 
President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, F.R.S. Edinburgh. He col- 
lected in Simla and Kumaon. He published Brief Observations on some of the 
Pines and other Coniferous Trees of the Northern Himalaya, in the Journ. Agric. 
Soc. of India, 1845, and a Supplement to it in 1850, and Nepal Plants in 
1856. The genus Maddenia Eosaceae was called after him by Hooker and 
Thomson. 
