
          a very unsatisfactory [added: view] of the lichenose vegetn [= vegetation] of California.
I was truely happy to recieve the [?] of Tuck-
ermania, I had almost concluded that the plant was
forgotten, for I could never procure a specimen, till you
sent it, and could not hear that anybody had it
in cultivation. Thanks to you for it - and for the
promise of the plates. I shall contrive to get a sight
of the whole book here beside; but particularly desire
for myself only the Tucka [=Tuckermania] as I have never studied
a single Califn [= California] plant (Phaenog). You sent me a large
stock of Califn [= Califorina] lichens - particularly Ramal. [=Ramalina] menziesii,
Evernia vulpina, and E. xanthocarpa. They will
be published in my Lich. Exsiccati, hich I know
is the disposition you wd [= would] approve. Of the R. menziesii
I have a very large colln [= collection] - but can only eke out
perfect specimens for the Exsicc., by piecing together
branches, and am particularly poor in fertile branches.
A few more therefore will be highly acceptable, shd [= should]
you recieve them. As to Evernia vulpina, I wish to
but first rate specms [= specimens] of the fine fruit in every one of
the 50 copies, and want some 20 more specimens at
least to do it. Of the 3d E. xanthocarpa I 
have magnificent specimens - but only a very
few fertile, + not more than a third of what I need
infertile. I do not hesitate to mention that Desid-
erata, because such a work of mine is no private
concern at all, and may I know depend on the
sympathy + approbn [= approbation] of Botanists, which you have so
abundantly manifested.
Speaking of Botanists in my last, I ought
to have said, that nobody I knew seemed to
have altered at all furing the 8 years of my absence 
from them. Wahlenberg I looked at with real
interest and reverence. He went through his Potamoge-
tons with me, just as he did with his Carices [added: + Willows], in 
1842, and gave me the fullest sets of every species +, 

        