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Post Office, Monday morning.

My Dear Doctor

I find yours of the 5th. Oct. at the
P.O. and open mine to you, to introduce
a word of thanks.

The Mentzlias have not come yet, will
soon be here, no doubt.

As to the Saxifraga, write Benth. among other things
what coll. it is in, and what you have called it.-
I will make a mention of it in a note, under
Saxifr. [?] in Fendler, a proof of which I will
have in [crossed out: Fendler's hands] Bentham's hands ere
he prints. The [?] [?] published. B. is always a
gentleman about such things.

But why not figure the Rosaceus genus, tho.
Bentham has partly anticipated , & got the name?

I don't much like the name Hypericum
linifolium for that sp.

I have cooled off from my vexation after the
two days work at Cymopterous, & cry your pardon
for all my scolding. But I still believe that
the Fendl. 275 has the secondaries only developed; and
think I could show that your own drawing in the
letters to me proves it. You may find the rudiments
of the 2 lateral primaries on the commissure. That
mass that pokes round the corner of the abortive are -
(they are always lop-sided) is one of the [effaced: 2] lateral secundaries.
Those on the back are the 2 dorsal secundaries, & the
dorsal primary is between them.-

I will go over
it all again. In some specimens, the seed is involute
but then the other is abortive or smaller - [crossed out: for it is [?]]
        