
          Recd. [Received] May 17th
 Ansd [Answered] July 4th 1838
 by Dr. Daubery


 London March 18, 1836


 My Dear Sir,


 I had the pleasure of replying to your letter
 of September last about a month or six weeks ago in a
 parcel I sent for you to Dr. Boott containing the 2nd and 7th
 parts of my Labiatae [added: ny sinophulonion Indica Ebilene] I have now received yours of the 25th
 January with some specimens for which I am much obliged.


 Respecting Cunila glabella Michx, I am afraid you
 will be startled were I to suggest that the specimens gathered
 in Kentucky by Dr. Peter and Dr. Short and those you formerly sent
 me from the Table Rock of Niagara may yet belong to one 
 species. Both are [didgeramous?] and in both the general forms of the leaves
 the inflorescence the calyx and corolla are the same. The Niagara specimens
 are small the leaves mostly entire and somewhat rigid and the verticillations
 seldom more than bi-flowered usually only two and the bracter (I do
 not mean the floral leaves) are very small. In the Kentucky specimens
 there is an excessive development of all the vegetative parts the lower
 [crossed out: illegible] floral leaves as well as the cauline ones are usually toothed the
 verticillations are often bi-flowered and the bractes are larger and broad
 but supposing (a fact which you may very likely know) the Niagara
 plant to grow on [crossed out: illegible] rocks expand to drought or heat in the early
 stages of its annual growth and the Kentucky plant to have been
 gathered in a rich alluvial soil [added: or in a moist shady situation] the differences are fully accounted
 for as you will observe that the lower [cauline?] leaves especially those
 of the sterile shoots of  the Niagara specimens are often toothed and one
 of the Kentucky specimens I have from Dr. Peter has all the floral 
 leaves and several of the cauline ones entire and is intermediate in
 stature. You who know the localities will best decide the point.


 Your [scutilloria erora?] answers in foliage and habit to some of the 
 numerous and polymorphous specimens I have of S. integrifolia yet I
 do not find the corollas of the latter ever with a lower lip [?]

        