to Mrs M Stovin 1829

Cambridge

1829

My Dear Madam

The Althaea hirsuta was noticed in Kent many years ago & recorded in Symon's catalogue of British plants, & also in Turner & Dillwyn's guide. I found it plentifully in the fields between Cuxton & Cobham in Kent, but think it very probable that it got there from seed originally imported in corn from the continent. I sd. say it had about an equal claim to insertion in our British catalogue with Delphinium, Glaucium, Adonis, & some other annuals found only in cultivated ground.

The Scirpus carinatus was a mistake for caricinus the former I do not possess.

Mespilus cotoneaster is figured in the last No. of Flora Londinensis (now concluded).

Believe me

Yr. obedient servt

J. S. Henslow

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