TALBOT1460

3 Aug^t–

Dear Henry

Major Laing ¹ is arrived at Timbuctoo & Capt Clapperton ² I believe at Sockatoo ³ – we hear this from the Consul at Tripoli whose daughter he married just before he started – I have had a letter from M^r Lysons ⁴ at S^t Gall. he says he saw all thro Bavaria the summer sweetscented cyclamen which I found in Austria & Tenore ⁵ in Carinthia & which we all three agree in thinking different from the spring one of Naples & Rome he is not quite satisfied whether it is the same he found on the Apennines with the Autumnal one which you call Europæum a name more properly belonging to the German sort & which would leave Neapolitanum to one of the Autumnal if they are really distinct – he saw Rosa integrifolia at Count Rizzi’s at Venice – it ought to be a new genus – also Adonis flammea & miniata & Chamæcistus & chamæbuxus var flor purpureis. D^r Kane ⁶ & I botanise a great deal he has a good eye & admires Decandolle ⁷ – I cannot follow Decandolle in his Lathyri &c – he makes too many & I suspect angustifolius tenuifolius cornutus or alatus which we have here [to be?] ⁸ no other than Clymencium Articulatus belongs to the same suite but is distinct – so is Ochrus Pray go to Ab. ⁹ this summer I have just received from it Anthericum annuum & Orobus atropurpureus an interesting little plant. Send me no seeds nor anything in your letter because I think of going away soon I do not know where exactly or when – I am unable to find seed of Chironia maritima. Do you know Allium flavum the red one I found last year at Lucca is I suspect A. paniculatum.

Y^r Aff
W T F S

Your pictures will soon be packed up & sent.

Henry Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville Street
London