TALBOT6458

London
Aug. 22

My Dear W^m

I shall be sorry to miss you, but I fear that we must leave Town on the 27^th But you will find Caroline ¹ & Ernestine ² at No 6 Pount Pont S^t Belgravia ³. I hope you will take a look at the Wild flowers of Vancouvers island exhibited by an amateur, in the Great Exhibition ⁴. They are some of them very like English ones – others different. I recognised the genera Brodiæa. Sisyrinchium grandiflorum<,> Bartsia, Castilleja, Dodecatheon, & some unknown forms. Look at the photograph of an immense tree (Wellingtonia?) taken in a forest in California by an amateur. This is in the U. States court.

Long ago I used to find Pulsatilla vernalis in Rutlandsh ⁵. growing with Astragalus hypoglottis. But never saw Apennina wild in England – nor ranunculoides.

Your aff^te
H. F. Talbot