
          And. [Answered] Apr. [April] 14th


 Cambridge, 28th March Tuesday evening. 


 My Dear Friend 


 Your letter of the 9th &c. with Buckley's
 mss. [manuscript] reached me last evening. Being very much hurried, 
 proposing to lecture twice this week, I have only now 
 had time to look it over. His text is better than before. 
 But his specific characters are the [veriest?] stuff, let alone 
 the orthography: neither head nor tail, full of the grossest errors,
 (such as the scape of a Pteris: one of his Phacelia's is said to 
 a "spike', and then the "flowers are said to be on long [crossed out: peducels]
 pedicels." no contrasting characters whatever between 
 his P. [Phacelia] fimbriata & P. [Phacelia] Purshii, which are widely different, &c. &c.,
 so that it will only render the confusion worse, and that 
 after Carey has made the discovery and worked out the whole 
 matter for him: this Buckley does not even allude to that. 
 That he shall do, if published. In fact I shall write to 
 him, and protest against publishing such descriptions. 
 Then his appended species: if these the only ones that there is 
 even probable season for considering new ones are Thalictrum 
 debile, Pteris Alabemensis, Malva LeConlei [LeContei] [Have you
 seen this Malva?] What is the use of his describing species 
 of Phlox, Salvia, & Sabbatica? I can't stand it.
 If he can describe his species half-intelligibly very well, 
 but if not, they shall not go into the Journal by any fault 
 of mine; and I am confident you will approve my veto.
 I do not wonder you were disgusted with it. I shall take care of 
 the Diervilla (first comparing it with the White Mt. [Mountain] fruiting specimens
 I got last autumn). His desc. [description] will never do. I don't see 
 how I could find time to overhaul his characters and copy them, 
 which would be inevitable, even if he were a pleasant man
 to deal with, And I dislike to add any notes with my initials to 
 show that I have let all this pass through my hands. As for 
 yourself, your account of the Buckleya should be [put?] on
 its own bottom, with an independent heading, to follow his 
 article. Enough of this. 


 I have been speaking about the bones of the Zygodon, 
 and there is a disposition to get up a subscription in the 
 Nat. [Natural] Hist. [History] [Socs? [Societies?]] and buy them, if still for sale, the price not 
        