
          
plants I have recieved [received] from him. It seemed as 
if he named things by hazard, without looking 
at them.

You will find Primula hornemanniana of Richardson's 
App. [Appendix] to Franklin's Journal to be the same as 
our Pr. pusilla [Primula pusilla]. I send you my Primula Scotica, 
an excellent species which I have published in 
Flora Londinensis.

Your curious Woodsia thing must surely
form a new genus. Bauer is very correct in all
that he does, & as well as Brown, is quite to be 
trusted. There is certainly a very deeply lacerated indusium 
beneath each cluster of capsules in our Woodsia; 
but the pedicels of the capsules are very short. 
Your plants may be distinguished from Woodsia by 
the broad subugular segments of the involucre. [Sori?] 
roundish, enclosed in a spherical involucre which 
bursts above into about 5 spreading bubovate segments. 
It certainly comes very near Cyathea; but differs
in habit &c.

Your "Aspidium rufidulum" is exactly the Woodsia 
ilvensis of Swartz. It is very different from our
Woodsia hyperborea  of which I send you two vars [varieties].
Both these again are very difft [different] from the Woodsia
glabella of Richardson.

Little indeed has been done in this country that
can be of use to you on N. [North] American botany except
perhaps in the Arctic plants; of which Brown's 
paper is published as a separate Appendix to Parry's 
1st voyage & mine of the 2d voyage is now in the 
        