#7. 41.] TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 391 
But I shall somehow distribute your 1851 collection 
very soon, name them up to the end of Composit, 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 Apetale 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 “ Plantze Wrightiane.” Copies are already in 
England, and I am about to dispatch many to France, 
Germany, ete. 
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 saxifragaceous. . . . 
July 28. 
I am worked almost to distraction. But college 
work is now over and J 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 fora ‘aed while a misunderstanding with 
