From William Peete   31 December 1827

My dear Sir

I have waited the opportunity of forwarding this to you in a parcel containing a few dried plants I have selected from my Herbarium for M ^r. Jenyns— I beg you to accept my best thanks for the rare plants you were so very kind to send me in the Autumn they are a valuable acquisition to my Hortus Siccus—

I was only able to obtain 3 or 4 of the Berries of the Pyrus pinnatifida which I requested the favor of your Sister when I was at Windsor to forward to you, I hope you received them, and they may vegetate in the Cambridge Garden, next year I may be able to procure more—

M ^r. D. Don has made some new discoveries of undescribed Junci, which he sent to M ^r Anderson at Chelsea Garden to cultivate— S ^r. Ja ^s. E. Smith received the Ophrys arachnitis from Plants last year, of which there will be an account in the Engl. Flora. The Orchis figured in Vol 27. of Engl. Bot. Tab: 1873. is now determined not to be the militaris, and it is proposed to call it Orchis Smithii, as a compliment to S ^r. J. E. Smith—

I hope we shall see you at Dartford this Summer, to make some new Botanical discoveries— The Farmer on whose Land the Centaurea solstitialis grew, was so very civil as to leave it uncut, and I have endeavored to save the Seed. and I send you some of the Capsules, and hope you will be able to make some vegetate in the Cambridge Garden—

I remain My dear Sir | Yours very truly

W ^m. Peete