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Dear Henry

Your Conyza ¹ may perhaps be C. geminiflora of Naples – or a Stokelina – dubia – I had one like it once from Corfu but with narrower leaves – Phyz– is from B. Ayres I believe – If Rhus elegans is from seed, it must be from Abb^{y 2} where there is a good deal of it The Orn– ³ is thyrsoideum which with one or two other Cape species ought to be united with Arabicum under Lindleys ⁴ Melanomphale. I have not heard of any of mine flowering Your tall weed seems Nicotiana glauca. I hope your Juniper may be the Neapⁿ macrocarpa, send me a berry or a shoot I think I should know the leaves. Euphorbia prunifolia I know at Florence

I will send you something by Gwynne. ⁵

There has been no opportunity for Ld Aucklands ⁶ letter to go yet, but there will be next Saturday when I will take care it shall go viâ Egypt –

Send me a bit of E. Humboldtii Jane ⁷ is gone thro to Wales.

Y^r Aff
W F S

Harriet ⁸ is happy at having bought L^y Jane Greys portrait at a sale –

I am curious to see what the Aleppo Hyacinth & Narcissus will turn out –

With the space you have at Lacock it would be really useful if you would undertake cultivating for comparison some of the long genera – Saxifraga, Veronica Campanula, Aster, Euphorbia, Linaria &c all in a row.

Have you de Candolles ⁹ Campanulaceis & Moris Flora Sardoa? ¹⁰

London October eleven 1837 W F Strangways
Henry F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham