358 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. (1848, 
Dr. Gray was married, May 4, 1848, to Jane 
L., daughter of Charles Greely Loring, a lawyer in 
Boston. In June they made a short journey to 
Washington, that Dr. Gray might, on undertaking to 
describe the plants of the United States Regie 
Expedition, see Commodore Wilkes. 
TO JOHN TORREY. 
CamBrincE, 8th May, 1848. 
Yesterday I sent to Grant at Wiley’s for you a 
parcel containing some “ Linnzas,” etc., received from 
Hamburg, your copy of Seubert on Elatine, and a 
bound copy of the “Genera Flor Americ Boreali- 
Orientalis Illustrata,”’ which I ask you to accept, and 
which I trust you will like. There is also a specimen 
inclosed of some vegetable product that has lately be- 
come somewhat common here, and which I thought you 
might like to examine. It is apparently of a rather 
complicated structure, in fruit evidently, but synear- ; 
pous; the heterogenous and baccate or fleshy ovaries 
being immersed without apparent order in a farina- 
ceous receptacle. If you should be at all puzzled 
with it, and can’t find out to what particular family 
it belongs, you might call in the aid of Mrs. Torrey 
and the girls, to aid in the investigation. I dare say 
you will make it out. 
June, 1848. 
Iam just home this morning, and as I had no time 
yesterday to reply to your kind letter of Saturday, I 
write at once now... . 
Friday evening we were at the White House, to see 
Madame Polk. We have accomplished a great deal 
of sight-seeing and all in our week and a day, and J. 
