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and I assisted him in arranging them and _ selecting 
for his herbarium; in the course of which I have 
obtained specimens of nearly all the Northern and 
Oregonian ones, including one or two which have 
come in recently, of which I have, when there were 
duplicates, specimens also for you. The return num- 
bers of those sent you were in many cases strangely 
misplaced, and Boott has often been sadly confounded. 
He has studied the genus very critically, hypercriti- 
cally I may say; for he makes new species where we 
should think there were too many already. We went 
over Hooker’s Grasses in the same way, and I have 
obtained numerous specimens and much useful infor- 
mation which we shall presently require. On Christ- 
mas day Joseph Hooker selected from a large Van 
Dieman’s Land collection a suite of specimens as far 
as they have been studied (to Calyciflorz), in which 
there is in almost every instance a specimen for each 
of us. . 
In fouling over the recent collections from the 
Snake country, and Douglas’s Californian, I recog- 
nized a great portion of Nuttall’s, 1 but by no means 
all. There was a single specimen of Kentrophyta in 
excellent fruit; another of Astrophia, with neither 
flower or fruit, collected long ago by Scouler and 
mixed in with a species of Hosackia, to which genus 
I am not sure that it is not nearly allied. Nuttall has 
made too many Hosackias! The copy of “ Flora,” 
with my notes, has gone round to London, so that I 
cannot now communicate many curious things noted 
in the second part. But how did we overlook the 
1 Thomas Nuttall, 1784-1859 ; a great traveler and explorer. Came 
to the United States in 1807. His writings are intimately connected 
with the development of North American botany. 
