
          have not yet arrived. Neither
 is my book of notes at hand.
 Instead therefore of relying solely on
 my memory for information with respect
 to them, I send you Dr. [Doctor] Kellogg's description
 published some months ago in
 a San Francisco newspaper. Though
 rather verbose + [and] obscure, you will 
 find it more reliable than any minute
 items I could give you from memory.


 Both varieties are found all along
 the Pacific Coast, both above + [and] below
 San Francisco. The smooth fruited 
 one much less abundant than the 
 other, but growing in the same locality.


 I have never received your "Plantae
 Fremontianae" + [and] shall feel myself
 under many obligations to you for
 a copy, and also for any other of
 your memoirs or monographs.


 Is the Report of Lieut [Lieutenant] Whipple, of

        