
          work to which it is impossible to have every
 day reference. A truce however to my 
 criticisms.


 Mr. Wright writes me that he wants a new
 genus Glossopetalon spinescens in Fruit. It is a
 plant he collected at Frontera under the impression
 that it was Adolphia infesta. I recollect them
 both well but have not seen the Greek jawbreaker 
 since I left Frontera. He asks me to
 look out for it! It does not grow here and 
 you might as well look for it in the streets of New
 York or Cambridge. But in my collection sent 
 by Mr. Wright you will find it in young fruit
 and if you see proper you may communicate
 it to Dr. Gray. I should have written to Mr. W. [Wright]
 but he expected to leave soon so that my letter
 could not reach him in time. By the way Maj [Major]
 Emory appeared to think Mr. Wright was wrong in
 diverting his public plants to private purposes by having
 them published in continuation of Pl. [Plantae] Wright. [Wrightianae] and 
 appeared to me somewhat annoyed when he found
 you had turned over to Dr. Gray the plants collected
 by Mr. Wright under his order. His whole time 
 & expense was for botany exclusively and was 
 [crossed out: illegible] [added: paid] for out of the public Treasury, while ours
 was for other purposes and the time not spent in 
 special duties were only devoted to those collections.
 I hope there will be no difficulty in the matter. Mr. W. [Wright] has
 worked hard but he has also been well paid expecially under
        