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My dear Henry

M^r Lambert ¹ is very anxious to see you as D^r Spix ² has repaid him to you for an account of his plants – pray call on him when you come to town & ask to see the Flora Græca ³ it is most beautiful – I thought I recognised some Italian plants or at least varieties of what we had seen at Naples.

The Scabiosa pterocephala is very near the Crenata of the Apennines – Verbascum spinosum is a most curious plant – some interesting species of Convolvulus – Campanula – Statice – Anchusa – & Lithospermum He does not know I believe the Ophioglossum lusitanicum I wish you could give him a specimen – I met there D^r Richardson ⁴ of the Franklin expedition ⁵ who told me that Bechmannia erucæ formis ⁶ was not the only Southern plant that had been found in their course journey but that several they had brought home had been recognised as Adriatic plants.

Y^r Aff
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