
          difference in the fruit, (in external
 appearance I mean.) + [and] foliage, that
 I, at once, set them down as distinct species:
 waiting for more leisure to investigate
 them more fully. The requisite
 leisure never came + [and] as Dr. [Doctor] Kellogg
 was giving particular attention to these plants
 I thought little more about them.


 Dr. [Doctor] K. [Kellogg] did propose a name for the 
 smooth fruited kind. He called it
 Marah muricatus. The "Similar
 plant" to which he alluded was, I
 suppose the prickly kind, which grows
 abundantly in the vicinity of San Francisco.


 In the "Proceedings" of the 9th of April
 Dr. [Doctor] K [Kellogg] speaks of  "a new Cucurbit
 from Placerville", a town some 40 or 50
 miles north east of Sacramento City, 
 of which he promised a description as
 soon as the mature fruit could be obtained.
 He says it is known as the "Giant
 Root." And as it comes from the interior,

        