TALBOT3705

JFWH no ans^r required ¹
Lacock Abbey, Chippenham

July 8/38

My Dear Sir

I received some days ago your very kind present of Cape Bulbs, some of which have been duly committed to mother earth, others are reserved for the spring, & some I shall take with me into Wales to distribute among my friends in that direction, who are great botanists.

I have one of your plants in flower at present, it is very beautiful and much admired – a species of Ornithogalum.

You will find a good figure of the Harveya Capensis in Hooker’s new work Iconia plantarum, ² fig. 118

It is only a sham Orobanche, for Hooker says “It has the habit of Orobancheæ but the structure of the ovary forbids its being united with that family.”

I think that Bartholina pectinata flowered recently with Mess^rs Rollisson of Tooting and Lindley figured it in the Botanical Register ³ –

Believe me to remain Yours most truly
H. F. Talbot