TALBOT4112

Lacock Abbey, Chippenham

July 15. 1840

Dear Sir

I have sent half of D^r Sims’s ¹ Herbarium in a box by the waggon; I looked over one or two packets, & thought that the specimens were of little importance, and that the Herbarium was perhaps hardly worth the carriage to London: which is the reason why I have not sent it all; but the remainder is very much at your service if you like to have it. I have two strong plants of Centaurea pullata in flower (raised from seeds extracted from the M^t Taurus herbarium) – There is nothing about it to justify the specific name, neither the leaves nor flowers have any blackness – It is a distinct species, previously at least unknown to me. I raised another M^t Taurus plant, a species of Gypsophila

A rare European plant Arum tenuifolium flowered finely with me the other day. What is the name of the enclosed Phacelia?

Yours truly

H. F. Talbot