Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Information
Title
Letter from Jos. D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
MAW/1/111
Date
19 Sep 1872
Scope & content
Written from Royal Gardens, Kew. Manuscript
He is delighted to see the Marocco [Morocco] plants; they are Hypericum tomentosum, Bellis rotundifolia, Glaucium corniculatum, Linaria graeca, Eryngium dichotomum, and Cynoglossum clavatum [Pardoglossum cheirifolium]; he has sent the Bellis to Fitch [Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist at Kew] to be figured for the ‘Botanical Magazine’ and asks Maw if he can spare any live plants of it; he thanks Maw for his note on Pyrethrum, and has called the section ‘Scaphopappus’; he has four more species of it from greater heights; he has called the species mawii; the large stiff form which is figured he gathered at Reraia [Morocco] on the ascent to Moulai Ibrahim [Moulay Brahim]; the forms from all the other places are much more delicate and flaccid; he thinks he has four other species of the same section all from greater height; he would like to have the large, buff-flowered species figured and hopes Maw has kept it