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Document number: 4112
Date: 15 Jul 1840
Recipient: BENTHAM George
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection number: v10 d3742
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Lacock Abbey, Chippenham

July 15. 1840

Dear Sir

I have sent half of Dr Sims’s <1> Herbarium in a box by the waggon; I looked over one or two packets, & thought that the specimens were of little importance, and that the Herbarium was perhaps hardly worth the carriage to London: which is the reason why I have not sent it all; but the remainder is very much at your service if you like to have it. I have two strong plants of Centaurea pullata in flower (raised from seeds extracted from the Mt Taurus herbarium) – There is nothing about it to justify the specific name, neither the leaves nor flowers have any blackness – It is a distinct species, previously at least unknown to me. I raised another Mt Taurus plant, a species of Gypsophila

A rare European plant Arum tenuifolium flowered finely with me the other day. What is the name of the enclosed Phacelia?

Yours truly

H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. Probably John Sims (sic) (1749–1831) who edited Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1801–1826).

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