ar. 68.] TO W. M. CANBY. 687 
Mexican Composite, which abound with new or inter- 
esting species! . . 
I send you by mail a copy of my new “ Text-Book.” 
You see I relegate to other hands the anatomy, physi- 
ology, and eryptogamia, — glad to be rid of them. I 
send, too, one of the few copies of the Shortia paper. 
The translator into French in several places missed 
my meaning. And the explanation of the plate is a 
botch. I numbered only the floral parts I now fur- 
nished, expecting the materials from Herbier Paris to 
make another plate. Decaisne crowded all on one 
plate, and numbered to suit himself, and then printed 
my explanation unaltered. The numbers do not 
match atall.... 
TO WILLIAM M. CANBY. 
April 25, 1879. 
. .. About scheme: it is rather my notion to go 
via Statesville to Newton, explore down one fork of 
Catawba, till we find Darbya, or find Curtis’s locality, 
and back by the other; two days. But perhaps, to 
save time, you would prefer to keep on the railroad 
from Statesville to Lincolnton (where, by the way, 
Magnolia macrophylla grows), pick up Darbya, and 
then come up to us at Statesville or Marion. Then 
we will see locality of Shortia. 
Then, my notion is to get some good searches along 
the flanks of the mountains, from Swananoa Gap to 
Linville Falls (find Shortia for ourselves, etc.), and 
even up to Deep Gap, which you see is pretty well 
north. Then make Cowles tote us to Bakersville, and 
then end on Roan Mountain. 
There I and my wife would like to stay several days ; 
_ and you, if it must be, could leave us and get home. 
