
          No. 1.  Is this Asclepias Laurifolia? Grows in
sphagnose [sphagnous] bogs. Perennial, 4 to 6 feet high,
On some plants the leaves are oblique almost
falciform. You have specimens of
the largest as well as smallest plants.
In No 1, you have every leaf on the stock.
I remarked that there are generally
6 pairs of opposite leaves on the stocks,
say from the first flower down. Flowers
in June & July. I send along, the seed
vessel & roots, say parts of roots: for I
do not know to what depth they penetrate
in the mud. They appear tuberous.
You have one young root
entire, with all the parts of the
plant berfore you, you can determine
whether it is described or
not.

No. 2. In this you have, I trust, a new species
of Sabbatia [Sabatia], it grows in the same
locality of No. 1. Perennial 3 to 4 feet
& sometimes 5 feet high, the whole plant
glaucous, stem round & hollow, the
leaves nerved, lanciolate & subconnate?
the flowers in corymbs
& snow white. One of the most [added: showy &] beautiful
herbaceous plants in our woods.
Flowers from now to August.

[in margin, in another hand]
S. macrophylla [Sabatia macrophylla]
Hook [Hooker]
[compend? bot.? may?]
DC prod [De Candolle's Prodromus]
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