TALBOT402

Glasgow.
Sept^r 28^th

My dear Sir

I have no really British specimen of Gnaphalium luteo-album: – & only very wretched ones of Echium violaceum – & shall therefore be very thankful for both.

They will be the more acceptable just now as I am engaged in preparing a 4^th ed. of the British Flora, ¹ which will go to press in a fortnight. Did you gather the Gnaphalium? & in what part of the island? I am told M^r Babington ² has been making some interesting discoveries in the Channel islands: such as a new Hypericum & a new Atriplex &c; & he is preparing some account of them.

You noticed to me some time ago some particulars in the seeds of Silene inflata ³ & maritima. Do you think these characters are constant? & if so are there any other fixed marks by which those two species can be kept separate?

You have doubtless heard of Lippold’s visit to Madeira⁴ to collect plants. I am daily expecting a set which I heard some time ago had arrived in London.

Faithfully Yours,
W. J. Hooker

Hunneman (9 Queen St, Soho) ⁵ will take charge of the plants for me from Jersey.