WILLIAM BALDWIN 109 



the last two letters ever received from Baldwin by 

 Darlington : 



" This boat, hastily constructed, and built 

 entirely of unseasoned timber, is almost daily in 

 want of repairs, and is so leaky and wet that we 

 have not a dry locker for our clothes. It will be 

 with the utmost difficulty that I shall save any 

 specimens I may collect Little oppor- 

 tunity has been afforded to the naturalists to do 



anything At St. Charles a pack horse 



was procured for $150, and Say, Jessup, Seymour 

 and Peale set out by land. They accomplished 

 no more than they would have done on board the 

 boat, and suffered excessively with thirst and heat 

 in passing burning prairies where no water was 

 to be found. The mail closes presently, and I 

 feel myself too much indisposed to write or to 

 think much." 



He tells, in 1819, of finding a specimen of his 

 own floral namesake in possession of a German 

 botanist: " In looking over his collection I 



found a Balduinla unlflora I informed 



him the name would not be adopted in this coun- 

 try. He reprobated, and had changed the orthog- 

 raphy to Baldwinia" Neither the genus nor the 

 spelling pleased Baldwin, but the name is prop- 

 erly listed by Torrey and Gray as Baldwinia uni- 

 flora, though Lindley 2 gives Balduina." 



2 Gray's Botany. 

 Lindley (The Vegetable Kingdom], pp. 334-711. 



