TALBOT623

Landough Castle
Oct. 29^th –

My dear Henry,

I have found Adiantum Capillus Veneris in equal perfection at Dunraven ¹ upon the Rocks in abundance I will send you a little bit in this letter – I found likewise a plant growing on the wet rocks. I will describe it as well as I can – Roots – fibrous – of a light brown – Stalk round branching from the root and for the flower stalks – and of a light green colour. Plant growing from four five to eighteen inches in height – Leaves this shape the largest two inches long & growing wherever the stalk branched off – Blossoms about twenty on a stalk alternate, white, very small & I think five cleft joined at the bass [sic] – the seed vessells this shape seeds this size sticking round the seed vessel around which there is a case – I am afraid this is not very like it but enough perhaps for you to understand it my description My language is not very Botanical – which you must excuse – It was a very pretty plant which I think very uncommon for those sort of looking plants it was odd enough for me not to know what is was – Mama ² did not know it – Tell dear Chris ³ – that I wish he would write to me – Mama says we must not all write so many and Mama take up [sic] all the correspondence.

Write soon as I am all impatience to know what it can be. Miss Bee went on Monday never to return I am afraid she is a great loss –

yours affec
Jane Talbot

Mama says she will send some money to Christopher as soon as she can get any that will go –

Kiss this dear Boy for me if you will or can condescend –

W^m Henry Fox Talbot
Rev^d D^r Butlers ⁴
Harrow
Middlesex –
29 Oct. 1814. ⁵