Letter from J.D. Hooker [Joseph Dalton Hooker] to George Maw

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Maw’s Arum was pronounced Arum dioscoridis by Oliver [Daniel Oliver, librarian of the Kew herbarium]; it is very similar to Arum spectabile [Arum dioscoridis ‘Spectabile’] as seen in Regel’s [Eduard von Regel, botanist, editor of ‘Gartenflora’] ‘Gartenflora’; its form is similar to Arum italicum; the large Cytisus is Cytisus hirsutus, and the smaller is Cytisus biflores [Cytisus ratisbonensis]; these are both very faded, otherwise he would have had them sketched for the ‘Botanical Magazine’, and he asks Maw to send pale flowers to Miss Barnard [Anne Henslow Barnard, botanical artist] at Leckhampton, Cheltenham; he has too many unpublished figures of arums, else he would have had Arum dioscoridis drawn; the plates are lovely, especially the Lustre ware one; he asks when Maw is coming to town

Credit Line: Courtesy of David Symonds Hooker / The Descendants of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker / RHS Lindley Collections