Dear Henry

Your Lysimachia is L. Ephemerum. I saw it in a garden at Lausanne. I turned over the paper & found the Asphodel – I think it is the origin of Daffodil as I have an old Venetian book with a rude woodcut representing anything & called Affodillo – on which an old English handwriten Daffodil.

We go to Melbury ^<1> Monday then to Abb^{y <2>} I hope for some time – My new Yucca graminifolia has flowered at Chelsea – it is not a true Yucca but something connecting the smaller Helonias with Yucca. I propose calling it Heloniastrum Karwinskii from the discoverer – I am disappointed in Flora Sardoa ^<3> there ought to be more in that Island – Do you know Medicago cincinnaba – it ought to be a new genus I would call it Medicastrum. M^r Lambert ^<4> comes Saturday.

Y^r Aff
W F S

I have had sent up beautiful Nerine venusta finer than Guernsey Lily – Colch. montanum v. Cupani Convol. Cantab. Antirrh. asarina an European transition towards Lophospermum. Linum suffruticosum

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H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. Melbury, Dorset: one of the Fox Strangways family homes; WHFT was born there.

2. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.

3. Giuseppe Giancinto Moris (1796–1869), Flora Sardoa… (Turin: 1837–1859).

4. Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), botanist.