
          interview with in October; one of the very last interviews
that any stranger had with him; his melancholy coming on
soon after, + not leaving him till his sad death. No one
can go to Germany without wishing to go there again + again.
English hospitality + French politeness both yield to the
hearty simplicity of German kindness. That's the only
word for it. In this I include Danes + Swedes, 
with Germans. In England I saw Sir William + Lady
Hooker + beside them scarcely anybody by Dr. Boott.
The fact is the Dyspepsy completely deprivmed me of 
the wish no less than the power to work; not to men-
tion that I had constant and sole charge of a party
of ladies during almost every week of my absence. 
I have got together my materials for an Enum-
eration of the Lichens of the Southern States, and prepared
the manuscript, which now waits only the slow process of
describing the new species, which are legion. Since I got
back, I have also put up, unassisted, the remaining
25 copies of my Exsiccata vol I., no trifling job - I con-
sider these proofs that my travels have not been
without good effect. They have found no errours in
the Exsiccata so far. There are differences of opinion of
course in some species. Fries holds to his genus Pyxine,
(as Montagne does also) [?] me to Parmelia - and Fries 
        