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to dedicate another plant to you, some plants I told him I hoped it would be a new one. He has quoted me wrong about Mimosa Arborea, & without my knowledge. His Zappania is a very bad genus. Can Columnea humilis be a Buchnera? he did not know that Browne had described it. I heard an excellent lecture from him on Grapes. Scarpa appears to me the cleverest fellow at Pavia. I am very busy ascertaining plants for the Marq:s [Marquis] Durazzo whose garden is very pretty & not ill furnished, my coming here again was solely to spend a little time with him, & see the botanical productions of this neighbourhood. I shall spend a month in Switzerland, but can scarcely hope to find any thing new. Haller's Herbarium I saw at Pavia. It would be difficult to use it to any purpose, as he put in all the plants w:ch [which] were sent him with the names right or wrong as he received them, so ye one knows not what to trust to, & there are no notes of his own.
I am most respectfully Yrs [yours]
J E Smith
S:r Joseph Banks Bar.t
Soho Square
London
Inghilterra. [England]
fr. Smith
Aug.st 9 ---87.
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