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the fact that, while so many South American Hepaticas are identical
with Indian species, scarcely any mosses are. I feel sure I
have many European species among my Andine collections. I
was surprised to see on Chimborazo dense tufts of Hypnum
ScJireberi growing among the heather just as they do in England.
To Mr. George Beuthani
QUITO, Aug. 17, 1858.
I have lately had the pleasure of receiving your
letter of June i, containing the names of my Vene-
zuelan plants. My notes on these are in Ambato ;
still, I recognise the greater part of them. .
. .
Nearly every plant I gathered at the highest point
of the Guainia which I explored proves to be new ;
and this increases my regret that I could not, on
account of illness, follow out my original project
of ascending that river as far as the cataracts. . . .
I have a new genus allied to Henriquezia in the
forest of Canelos, but when I shall be able to go
and gather it I cannot tell. It is an immense tree,
with leaves three together, and with large yellow
flowers 6 inches long five equal stamens but a
much longer corolla-tube than Henriquezia.
I am satisfied to find that the small collection
from Maypures has arrived in an identifiable state.
When I it opened out at San Fernando, after my
long illness, both plants and paper were one mass
of mould. By little and little, as my trembling
hands and dim eyes allowed me, I brushed awa\
the mould and transferred the plants toother paper.
When I reached San Carlos the process had to be
renewed, so that I had reasonable doubts of their
preserving any of their original
they reached England.
semblance when