TALBOT770

My dear Henry,

I send you a moss as H. palustris which may, or may not, be it – my specimen certainly agrees better than the enclosed with Smiths* ¹ description,

and was found in a different place, but I looked there in vain, my search for H: filicimum in fruit was likewise unproductive, it is later this year than last, for I do not think by the look of the shoots, it will produce any for this month to come, I have squeezed off a bit [illegible deletion] of my own specimen, which small as it is, will I hope enable you to tell me I am not wrong in calling it filicimum –

Caroline ² has got the seven first numbers of M^r Hooker, ³ I am delighted with them but cannot help trembling for his life, I know so many people who have died almost directly that they have begun publishing in numbers – pray enquire after his health now & then – I verily believe one of the mosses I found in the Isle of Mann [sic] was the Weissia Templetonii which M^r Hooker says was has never ^been found ^before out of Ireland – Hypnum tenellium grows upon Giles’s ⁴ grotto here, – do you understand the grasses? I wish I did, but they appear very difficult – Mr Oglander⁵ Sir William’s brother, found Hookeria lucens & what I think must be Encalypta vulgans somewhere near Parnham – Caroline desires her love to you –

Y^rs sincerely
A. M. Murray

Do you want any Bryum nutans? –

*N.B. don’t find fault with my quoting him I must do so while M^r Hooker’s work is only in progress –.

Sherborne, May twenty Eight, Ilchester ⁶
W. H. Talbot Esq^r
Rev^d Mr Bonney’s ⁷
Normanton
Stamford