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I am very sorry that I have no drawing of the one called
"Boykinia". I had a pretty good one which I gave Dr.
[May?] two years since. You will however find two very
imperfect attempts at painting it, which may enable 
a drawer under your inspection to make a tolerable
painting of the plant, the [berry?] is made too 
long for its diameter & the male flower still more
imperfect, the leaves if finished would do, the flowers 
are a greenish white & and I ought to have said in my
description that the male stamens are thin & lobed 
just as most of the Cucurbitaceae.

The plant which I propose to call [Beyrichea?] can
also be easily drawn by making the leaves a dark
& glossy green, & regularly [?], the flower
blue & near the top as you see in the specimens &
but a single one [added: or two on a plant-] at the time.  They come out one day
& the next they have withered.  The seed repel with its
coverings so singular you will find enclosed in a
paper & dried so as to exhibit them well for examination,
the nectary, I presume, you will not detect (See my description).

The new Lobelia which I proposed to call
L Paniculata (I think) is upon reflection strictly
racemose or nearly universally [added in minute script: so], except where 
mutilated,
it then puts forth branches which make
it paniculate.  I now suggest Stolonifera as a
specific name for it, because it increases by 
stolons forming large beds of [added: crowded] plants. You will
perhaps find some other Lobelias which merit
an investigation.

Somewhere you will find two species of Ilex, one with
the fruits,-  one I think not described, they grow 10 to 15 
feet in height in the River swamp.

I have called your attention to an Andromeda out of
flower collected in the up country, is deciduous & might,
I am certain be new.

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The plant having the appearance of a Polygonum found
with the Cleome Cunifolia, is new to me.  The seed are 
very like P. Fagopyrum.
If you are not careful you may overlook the single specimen
of what I take to be Utricularia Biflora.  My other
specimens were mislaid or lost.
I regret that a great many of the [Syngenesious/Syngerusious?] plants,
[crossed out: [Diadelpheus?], [Papilionacious?], Euphorbias & very 
many of various families were so much injured
that I had to throw them away.
In relation to Pontederia I can remark that I never saw 
P. Cordata but in living in moving water as in the [crossed out: banky] ^[added: edges]
of the rivers. & P. Lanceolata always in ponds
or stagnant water.
The petals of the Silene ovata are not fimbriate,
the divisions of the [?] are linear and parallel
thus [drawing: plant part, labelled claw].  I have examined it carefully & could
not see a single one of the [crossed out: illegible] divisions
subdivided. The roots 18 inches to two feet
in length, with scarcely any branching.  It 
puts forth many stalks from the root like Cucubalus.
See my [crossed out: remarks] [added: reasons] for putting it with Cucubalus.
The Silene Fimbriata is most beautiful 
but in drying loses its handsome pink colour.

When Mr. Nuttall returns you will likely see him 
and if you do. remember me most affectionately
to him & tell him I would be more than gratified 
could he spare the time to write me.

I expect to remove the ensuing winter to Columbus on
the Chatahoochee River where, no doubt, the ensuing 
spring I shall make some discoveries.  This rich
[crossed out: no doubt] in plants in the spring etc.

Please write me as soon as convenient after examining
the plants. - Very sincerely yours &c.  W. Boykin

[written crossways on the center fold of the page]
20 Octobr. 1836. The boxes werre sent
in the stage to Augusta this morn=

Some specimens of [?] [Lanugimosia?]
were [?] to [?] [?], [tuesday?],
flowers are in spily [?] that I 
have seen [?] racemes. [Mr?] [N's?]
description is accurate. [In?] flowers
now.
        