
          Marietta, O [Ohio] Aug [August] 7th /55


 Dr. [Doctor] Torrey


 Dear Sir


 Your favor
 of the 9th [?] was duly received
 I regret that the box of [crossed out : seeds?] cones
 + [and] specimens did not reach you, though
 likely to prove of little use. I have
 heard nothing, since I wrote you, from
 the gentlemen who bought it.


 I send now by my brother Prof [Professor]
 E.B. Andrews, a small package
 containing fruit of two species of
 Echinocystis from California.
 You say you refer them to the genus
 Megarrhiza. Where shall I find
 a description of this genus? Is it not
 in the published volume of the "Flora
 Americana".


 My specimens of the flowers + [and] foliage

        