King expresses his gratitude at receiving CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE with a plate of Argylia canescens. He comments on the plant from which the figure was taken, noting that it was grown in a 'cool house' and that it seems as well developed as those he has seen growing wild. He goes on to discuss varieties of the plant that he has seen growing in the desert of Atacama, Northern Chile at about 1500 feet. He goes on to mention some 'handsome Chilean plants' which are rare or unknown in European gardens, including species of Cruckshanksia, Leontochir, Alstroemeria and Ledocarpum, but which might grown successfully. He has asked his friends in Chile, though they are not botanists, to send seeds. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.