TALBOT3484

March 19. 1837

My Dear Sir

Now is the time for you to publish your opinion about Chryseis. I find upon sitting down to write the letterpress of the Botanical Register ¹ that for the 1^st of next of month that I have a species of Eschscholtzia to say something about If you will give me a written note explaining why you would change the present name & substitute the other I will adopt your view & act upon it by suppressing Eschholzia ² (the scratches stand for consonants).

Esch<imimia?> was a name of Chamissos; ³

Elsholtzia, of Willd. ⁴ named in fact after the same man, ⁵ and long previously, is adopted by Bentham ⁶ and no doubt is a permanent genus

I see no objection to Chryseis; for the genus to which that name was given by Cassini, ⁷ is reduced very properly to Centaurea.

Let me hear from you on Tuesday

Yours faithfully

John Lindley

Henry Fox Talbot Esq