(339/2.

See Letter 49.) I was aware that he was not the first who had insisted on range of Monocots.

(Was not R.Brown [with] Flinders ?) (339/3.

M.Flinders' "Voyage to Terra Australis in 1801-3, in H.M.S.

'Investigator'"; with "Botanical Appendix," by Robert Brown, London, 1814.), and I fancy I only used expression "strongly insisted on,"-- but it is quite unimportant.
If you and I had time to waste, I should like to go over his [De Candolle's] book and point out the several subjects in which I fancy he is original.