
          Fountaindale Ills [Fountaindale, Illinois, Winnebago County]


 Dec [December]18 1871


 Dr John Torrey


 Dear Sir


 Will you 
 pardon the liberty I
 take in addressing
 you concerning the
 precise determination 
 of the willow Salix. 
 Is it S. torreyana Barratt? 
 With the description
  in Emerson's Trees and 
 shrubs of Mass. [Massachusetts] it agrees 
 exactly -- only as regards
 the stipules which in
 the present instance are
 not unusually large -- 

        