It is exactly like my barnacles; but for my particular purpose, most unfortunately, both Kolreuter and Gartner have worked chiefly on A.vulgaris and canadensis and atro-purpurea, and these are just the species that you seem not to have studied.

N.B.Why do you not let me buy the Indian Flora?
You are too magnificent.
Now for a short ride on my chief (at present) hobbyhorse, viz.

aberrant genera.

What you say under your remarks on Lepidodendron seems just the case that I want, to give some sort of evidence of what we both believe in, viz.

how groups came to be anomalous or aberrant; and I think some sort of proof is required, for I do not believe very many naturalists would at all admit our view.
Thank you for the caution on large anomalous genera first catching attention.