TALBOT7426

3. Red Lion Square. London. W. C.
July 24. 1857.

Dear Sir,

I have recently returned to England from Madiera and enclose you a list of My Collections –

I have a few Plants of an exceedingly handsome new Campanulaceous Plant Musschia Wollastoni ¹ Lowe ² recently discovered in the Mountains of Madiera – It has a Whorl of elegant leaves from 1 to 3 feet long from the centre of which arises a Panicle of Numerous orange & purple flowers which sometimes attains the height of 3 feet. It will do put in a cool damp shady Green house and is a Native of the damp forest Ravines.

I have also plants of a new Rose-colored Chrysanthemum, hamatomma Lowe – recently discovered on the almost inaccessible Cliffs of the uninhabited Dezertas near Madiera Also Monigia edulis a new Non belliferous genus with elegant fern like foliage and an arborescent stem The price of the Musschia is 30^s / – and that of the other two £1Ì 1Ì 0 each – well established Plants in Pots.

All these are described in the N^o of Hookers Journal of Botany for last October. ³ You May perhaps like to secure examples of these interesting new Plants and I should be glad to Know whether any of my other Collections are such as you would wish to purchase.

I am, dear Sir, Your’s faithfully
Nath^l H. Mason F. L. S. ⁴

H. F. Talbot Esq^re