JET. 41.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 391 



But I shall somehow distribute your 1851 collection 

 very soon, name them up to the end of Compositae, and 

 in the course of the summer determine many of the 

 monopetalous families. I have already named and 

 described a few of these and some Apetalse to please 

 Colonel Graham, and named a new Pentstemon after 

 him (which I have growing, too), which compliment 

 seems to gratify him. 



By this time you will have received the index and 

 plates of " Plantae Wrightianae." Copies are already in 

 England, and I am about to dispatch many to France, 

 Germany, etc. 



You are indeed an invaluable collector, though you 

 do like to grumble now and then, and I hope the In- 

 dians won't catch you. If they must take a scalp or 

 a head, there are others I could better spare. So take 

 care of yourself. . . . 



TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



February 23, 1852. 



I carefully keep your flowering bit of Fendlera, ready 

 to return it if Lindheimer does not get more, as I 

 trust he will. It is the most interesting of North 

 American genera, between Deutzia and Philadelphus, 

 and shows plainly that both are saxif ragaceous. . . . 



July 28. 



I am worked almost to distraction. But college 

 work is now over and I can get on with fewer irons in 

 the fire. 



I fear you are driven up hard also, by the sickly sea- 

 son and cholera. I hope you may be able to give up 

 practice by and by. . . . 



I have had for a good while a misunderstanding with 



