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Document number: 04113
Date: 18 Jul 1840
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BENTHAM George
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Kentchurch Court
Hereford

July 18 1840

My dear Sir

Your letter <1> has been forwarded to me here as I have now left town for the summer I have much to thank you for the trouble you take in sending me Sims’ <2> herbarium which is always valuable, independently of the rarity of any species, on account of its containing the originals of many plants figured in the Botanical Magazine. I should therefore, if you still persevere in your kind offers, be much obliged by your sending the remainder as well as the portion you have sent – & trust you will kindly charge on all expences with the carriage which will be paid by our servant.

The Taurus plant called Centaurea pullata is certainly not it – The true Centaurea pullata is a low plant with black spots on the scales of the involucre

The plant you enclose appears to me to be Eutoca divaricata.

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 04112.

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