Cambridge
9 December 1825
My dear Sir,
As Mr Lork of Trinity is so kind as to offer to convey for me the accompanying packet of plants I shall not let the opportunity pass of thanking you for two packets which I have received since I last wrote to you & which I have not had any opportunity of acknowledging since. I always keep a packet with your name on it, & whenever any duplicates happen to occur turn up which I think you wd. like to possess I put them in it, & there they remain till an opportunity occurs of sending them— I should like however for you to specify those which you may be anxious for & which grow about here, as my guide at present is to consult your Flora, & I may perhaps be able to get some which you wd. like even though found mentioned there is Eriophorum pubescens has long been extinct in the habitat mentioned in Relhan, the fen having been drained – I can not satisfy myself that the Galium you were so good as to send me as G. Witheringii it is any thing but a variety of G. palustre – If you have a duplicate I should like a specimen for further comparison – Can you furnish me with good specimens of Melica nutans & Juncus acutus? I intend to follow your example & print a list of my desiderata next year which I will send you, but Any of ye. local species will be acceptable. I subjoin a list of the specimens sent & have placed a (D) against those in your printed list of desiderata –
Y rs. very truly | J. S. Henslow
N.B. You do not mention Bupleurum Arenaria integrifol. Rotundif. in yr. Flora, tho' I have a Spartina stricta specimen from Norton D. given me by Bupleurum rotundifol. Mr J. Hogg
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