Mackay left the specimens of Irish Saxifrages with Mr Pamplin before leaving town on Saturday. Pamplin will forward the parcel. The numbers correspond with a collection of the same sort sent to James De Carle Sowerby in May, whose brother made some drawings of several of them for publication in a future number of 'E.B.'[?]. Mackay met J.C. Sowerby on Friday and told him that he would be glad if the drawings were shown to Hooker before publication, as well as the descriptions. Number one exactly corresponds with the common London 'pride of gardens'. Number two, which is the common appearance of the plant on the Irish mountains, has smaller, more rounded and more sharply-toothed leaves. Number three is distinct from either, with deeply serrated leaves, always of a light green colour. The differences are noticed at once between the plant Mackay calls S. elegans and any of the varieties of Saxifraga geum, which he sends. Mackay mentions other variaties, including the so-called S. hirsuta of Haworth cultivated in the Oxford Garden and noticed by Mr Bree[?] as a variety of S. geum. The latter is different to the Irish plant which corresponds with the specimen so named in the Linnaean herbarium. Mackay describes the plant as having oblong leaves and discusses it further. Mackay will not forget to send Hooker the evergreens for his lawn along with some other shrubs and herbaceous plants, either in October or early in spring. Page 1 of 2.