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& may possibly be biennial. I will endeavour
to get perfect specimens yet & ascertain
if the Rad. [Radical] leaves are green through
the winter. It grows in Cass County Gea [Georgia] near
where the Coosawattee River breaks through
the mountains.

The Melilotus was found close to the Verbenas.
I judged it to be brought there, just when I found
it was the great highway through the Cherokee
Nation & by a celebrated spring called "Rock
Spring" where waggons stopped for the night,
going & coming.

I have never seen Aristolochia Sipho in flower,
hence I knew nothing about its fruit. But
since I have seen the latter now, it appears
to me you do violence to natural order to
place it with Serpentaria [Aristolochia serpentaria]. I have cultivated
the Serpentaria [Aristolochia serpentaria] & the woolly leaved
species now sent you again no. 3. In the
first packet I ever sent you, you had cultivated
specimens. In these [here?] the seeds are
of the shape & form of grape seeds, save
the flattening at the point of the grape
seed. I have several seedling plants & several
sprouts from an old root, which
will give me flowers in March if not
killed by frost. Do you want any plants?
You may likely decide my asclepias to be Laurifolia [Asclepias laurifolia].
Its root is as unlike that of Liatris as
it can be. See Nuttalls description. I forgot
to mention that the corpuscle is more concave
at top than in any other species.
        