
          labelled Sicyos oreganus, but
 none [crossed out: labled] labeled [crossed out: M. oregana]
 Megarrhiza oregana. I suppose 
 of course, that these are 
 synonyms, but wish to be 
 sure. I cannot find that 
 Naudin has examined it 
 at all, but I see Benth & Hook. [Bentham & Hooker]
 gen. plant. [genera plantarum], p. 835, throw it 
 with Echinocystis. I do not 
 think that I ever gathered 
 it. Have you any idea 
 what Kelloggs Marah
 muricatus (Proc. Cal. Acad. [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences]
 I, p. 38) is? [crossed out: In] I infer that 
 it is the cerum Megarrhiza 
 Californica, do you know 
 anything about it? I have never
 seen such fruit as he describes.


 I am [crossed out: hop] expecting 
 to go out with Whiting on 
 a little trip in the 
 Rocky Mountains, to start
        