To William Wilson 1 June 1830

My dear Sir,

I have received a very valuable packet of plants from you, for which I beg to return you my sincere thanks. I must also thank you for the trouble you save me in writing your labels so distinctly & attaching your name to each, for I can now stick them down with the plants without rewriting them - which is a matter of no small interest to me so much occupied as I often am. Besides the plants you have been so good as to send me you may strike out of my list of desiderata the Epilobium hirsutum inserted inadvertently, being common here, & Equisetum fluviatile which I have since received. I send you a list just published of our herborising proceedings this Session - not as being any use to you - but as a matter of amusement & to show you how we get on. I have had a larger class this year than I ever had before. You must not fancy me, except as a joke, to be a Linnaeus. I do what I can to collect materials from all quarters, which may perhaps be serviceable some day when we have our Museum more opened to the Public but I have no pretensions to any [illeg.]. You know far more & work much harder than I do in the department of our native flora. I will send you a packet as soon as I shall have added a little more to the plants I have already put by for you.

Believe me

Very sincerely Yrs

J. S. Henslow