
          be had very cheap. But not otherwise as it would be
only a work of partial reference to me.

[James Edward] Smith has within this week published the 3rd colume 
of his "English Flora". It is really an excellent work and
contains a mass of critical matter that perhaps no one
living but himself could have done so well or so
very accurately. Considering his advanced age I almost
wonder he has adopted so many of the modern
alterations as he has done.

Hooker is preparing for his System but I scarcely
think he will be out by the middle of 1826 at
soonest. It will be immense labor and what in any
eyes would be very unpleasant he has also to
contend against that is all the bad species that
[Augustine] DeCandolle has introduced into his systema. For
Hooker cannot be quite so independant as if his
work was wholly & totally original. You know it is
understood that the body is DeCandolle's. Only Hooked
ass everything new that he can. DC [seems?] even to have
sent him the sheets of his new Systema as they were
printed had it been necessary. All thie [added: must] produce a
sort of delicacy twoards DeCandolle's species not quite
to be desired. Hooker cannot gake all the liverties
he might wish. I can give you an instance of
bad species creeping into DC's work besides those of 
Rafinesque. My friend [William] Burchell collected a most valuable
herbarium with numerous duplicates in Southern
Africa, some very far in the interior, by exchanging he
confected to make a good general herbarium and made
a bargain with DC. Burchell sent him at first a
thousand specimens for which DC only returned 500 many 
of them common Europlean plants! Of course DC saw
no more of Burchell's plants and for want or original
        