TALBOT158

Dear Henry

One of your Vicias is lutea var purpurascens that in your letter hybrida M^r Anderson ¹ calls your white Veronica circæoides which is not a bad name. One of the handsomest wild ones is latifolia. Do you know the handsome Scophularia mellifera?

They tell me there are many Scilla hyacinthoides & Ornithogalum Arabicum this year flowering at Abb. ² Iris fimbriata is rare too out of doors & Pancratium illyricum remarkably fine

When are you coming. Tineo & Gasparini maintain the A. ciliatum of Naples to be different from the subhirsutum of Sicily.³ Who shall know them all?

Why do bubbles on a cup of tea attract one another it cannot be by reason of their density, for the greater the bubble the emptier it is.

Y^r Aff
W F S

Is muscari giganteum & macrocarpon the same? Any seeds of your Italian wild plants will be well bestowed on M^r Anderson
I hear C V. ⁴ is going to Abbotsbury