TALBOT2887

Tuesday

Albemarle St

Dear Henry

I am glad to see Vicia grandiflora &c pray set apart for me a bulb or two of Allium subhirsutum I think we have not got it – Allium roseum is ambiguum of Flora Græca, ¹ whose roseum I think I once found at Cuma, it is capsuliferous not bulbiferous, & had more flowers.

At the Hort Soc ² today I saw two beautiful orchideæ, Oncidium papilis & Renantheca – which grows on rocks in China. You send me Cynoglossum pictum –Vicia bithynica – a Euphorbia very distinct I may have sent you E. dulcis but it is one you must know – I did not think dulcis had dark petals – it should be soft and hairy – Portlandica & Segetalis are very near & Tenore’s ³ cæspitosa a sort of maritime segetalis almost the same with longer leaves – do you know pinea? You send a purplish vetch not much like hirta but like a purple var. of lutea I once found in Puglia & which Jane ⁴ I think possesses.

I suppose we shall see you soon I go to M^rs Marryatts ⁵ on Saturday.

When do the Party go abroad? I wish I could have gone down to Lacock when you did but the Courts prevented me –

Yr Aff^e

W F S

I can send you Vicia lutea from Abb^{y 6} to compare with yours – it is perennial & flowers late.

I saw at Whitleys ⁷ Hyacinthus amethystinus a beautiful little true hyac.

Henry F. Talbot Esq MP ⁸
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham