
          Do you observe the mess "Pastor 
 A Scheele" is making of Rome and
 Lindheimer's Texas plants in the 
 Linnaea.


 I certainly have no intention of 
 merging Pickeringia in [Anaggous?] or 
 any other genus till we know more 
 about. I have it in flower from 
 Douglas but no fruit.


 You will have reviewed by this 
 time a small packet of Wallich's 
 grasses. I am only sorry that 
 coming so late we could not put 
 you and Gray higher on the list. 
 I will endeavor to send you 
 some duplicates of my own next 
 time I arrange my grasses.


 Not being at home I cannot say 
 whether anything has been done lately 
 about [Bates?]. I believe not. But 
 as I suppose you are aware it
 strikes me that there was something 
 about it two or three years since
 in one of the German journals either 
 the Linnaea or [Schleeptandahl's?] 
 Botanische Zeitung [crossed out: illegible] struck by [?] 
 but I believe not much.
        