
          nearly a hundred miles from the 
 coast, it will very likely prove a new
 thing.


 I have no notes at hand on the 
 Megarrhiza, + [and] I fear none at all on
 the internal structure of the fruit.


 The reporter of the Tribune makes
 you say respecting the Megarrhiza, 
 that it "has an enormous eatable
 root + [and] is called fig-root". The fig-root
 is evidently an error, + [and] I suppose the
 [added : other] to be so also, for I never heard of 
 the root being edible.


 Has the botany of Wilkes Expedition
 by Prof. [Professor] Gray been published yet, +[and]
 in what shape does it appear, as a 
 separate volume or volumes, or as
 a part of some volume? I made quite
 a collection of plants, particularly ferns, during
 a visit to the Navigator Islands
 in /52 [1852] + [and] should like to examine his 
 botany of that group.


 Yours Truly
 T.L. (Timothy Langdon) Andrews

        