
          I will send it in a parcel next week. When you 
 write, please sound him as to live plants. 


 The Government gave Joe Hooker the Bot. [Botanical] Garden 
 at Edinburgh, so Lyell told me, but the Town 
 Council were determined not to have their professor 
 nominated by Government. I suppose Hooker will not 
 keep the Garden by itself, but I hope will give it
 up at once to Balfour.


 I am glad you have settled the quiddity about
 Onoclea obtusilobata, in good time too. 


 In [crossed out: Schu [Schkuhr?]] Kunze's suppl. [supplement] to Schkuhr fasc 2,
 there are no N. Amer. [North American] Carices. In no. 3, are
 Tab. 23 C. [Carex] rufina, Drejer, & C. nardina, Fries.
   "      24 C. subspathacea, Hornem.
   "      25. C. Michauxii, Schwein.
   "      27 C. Careyana, Dewey
   "      28 C. aestivalis, Curtis
    "     29. C. stylosa, Meyer


 That is all. 


 I got back last evening from a short excursion 
 I made to see Oakes, and get some live plants 
 he brought from the Mountains &c., but more 
 especially to settle a matter that I will write about on
 Monday. I will now merely say, while I think of it 
 that I should be glad if you would send me that volume of
 Swartz where he describes & figures Epipactis (Listera) convallarioides.
 I want to convince Oakes, if I can, that the Southern 
 Mountain plant is the same as Swartz's.
        