
          Recd. Aug. 28

Temple Lodge Hammersmith
Wst. London 14 August 1856

My Dear Sir

I have been very negligent in not writing to you
sooner to acknowledge having received a parcel of American
plants of the genus Lycium which you sent me through Sir William
Hooker to determine, but I have delayed writing, hoping from time
to time, to meet Sir William, who promised to let me know the channel
through which I could transmit the first volume of my Illustrations, 
long since promised. He has been absent some time in Scotland
where he is still, and as I leave tomorrow on a 2 month trip to the
Continent, I now write to say, that as soon as I was able, I determined
all the plants, putting tickets to each, with references to the species as
I had previously described them. I find 5 of the plants to be new,
which I hope you will publish, unless you might prefer that I
should include and figure them in the monograph of Lycium that
will appear in my second volume, which I hope to get finished soon
after Christmas next, and where I have already figured 62 species
and varieties of the genus: this volume I shall have the pleasure also of
sending you when completed. I returned the parcel of plants to Sir Wm
Hooker, as you requested, not long after I received it, and have little doubt
it has long ago safely reached your hands, and I have [crossed out] preserved all the
necessary details respecting the new species. Repeating the assurance of my
high regard, believe me to be, my dear sir, very truly yours

John Miers

Doct - Torrey.
        