From William Christy Jr   9 October 1830

My dear Sir

Your letter arrived during my absence from home on a botanical trip into Somersetshire & it was not until I had some time returned that I discovered it among my papers. This will account for my not attending to it earlier.

I have now great pleasure in sending you a parcel containing a few of your desiderata but as a great part of my herbarium is in Cheshire I have not been able to send all I could wish. I expected to have been down there ere this but circumstances seem likely to prevent my going before the new year. Anything I have to send you from there I can hand to my friend Mr Wilson of Warrington who I believe sometimes sends packets to you.

My late trip into Somerset was tolerably productive of good plants but I had the mortification to lose nearly the whole of my specimens owing to the papers not being changed. You will see what a shocking state some of the specimens now sent are in from that cause. In travelling on foot (which I do for my health & the greater convenience of botanizing) I find it impossible to carry my collection with me but am obliged to forward the packet to some town I fix on as head quarters. When any delay takes place in the delivery of these or I do not reach the place at the time I expected they sometimes suffer materially. I lost about 100 specimens of Reseda alba from an undoubtedly wild habitat on the Somerset coast & my specimens of Chrysocoma linosyris shared very much the same fate though not so irretrievably injured.

On the other page I hand you a list of my desiderata in British Plants any of which will be acceptable & as I am forming a general Herbarium I shall be also obliged by any spare specimens you may at any time happen to have in Exotic Plants.

Believe me |Dear Sir |Yours very truly|W Christy Jr.

Veronica verna --------triphylla Centunculus minimus Hippophaea rhamnoides Cuscuta epithymum ------- Europaea Pulmonaria officinalis ---------- angustifolia Borago officinalis Polemonium coeruleum Campanula rapunculus Phyteuma orbiculare Lonicera caprifolium Erythraea littoralis Viola lactea Ribes nigrum ----- alpinum ----- spicatum Thesium linophyllum Eryngium campestre Bupleurum odontites Tordylinium sp. Caucalis sp. Athamanta libanotis Corrigiola littoralis Statice reticulata Linum perenne Asparagus officinalis Convallaria multiflora ----------- verticillata Dianthus caryophyllus -------- prolifer Silene otites Stellaria glauca Arenaria tenuifolia Lythrum hyssopifolium Actaea spicata Glaucium phoeniceum -------- violaceum Delphinium consolida Pulsatilla vulgaris Teucrium scordium Galeopsis villosa Leonurus cardiac Melittis melissophyllum -------- grandiflora Melampyrum cristatum Limosella aquatica Arabis turrita Dentaria bulbifera Turritis glabra Geranium phaeum Althaea hirsuta Genista pilosa Vicia bythinica Hypochaeris maculata Cineraria palustris --------- integrifolia Gnaphalium luteo-album ---------- gallicum Doronicum pardalianches Centaurea jacea Malaxis loeselii ------- paludosa Equisetum hiemale --------- variegatum