
          want to illustrate your Californian & Oregon collections. The Draughtsman
That I have got would not suit you, being far too slow,
Too full of conceit, and will not study so as to improve himself in Bot, [Botanical]
Drawing, but the engraver elegantly, and withall [withal] I am enclined [inclined] 
to believe that between us we shall be able to bring out a set
of line drawings of Ferns, that will compare favourably with any
thing of the Kind that get made its appearance.

I have not seen the article in Sill. [Silliman�s] Journal on N. [North] American 
ferns by Kunze, but so soon is so soon as I am able to walk to the Library
I will overhaul it. Of the little fern sent in last note. 
so far as I am able to judge of it with the naked eye was sitting 
up in Bed, I take it to be a true Asplenium, as you surmised, 
and belonging Mr Jno. [John] Smiths [Smith�s] Darea section of [added: the] genus.
And may prove to be a new species, the specimens were very much
broken up in the note, and by and by they shall be 
examined more carefully; Any ferns from the South or elsewhere 
I shall receive with pleasure, and report on them to you so far 
as my knowledge goes. Pray, have you got from California 
amongst among Fremonts plants a Woodwardia? Kaulfuss,
and he is followed by Hooker; has [crossed out: illegible] refered the Californian plant
[crossed out: with] to the Woodwardia radicans. Will J. a native of the Western 
Isles; If you have any [added: Californian] specimens, see if there are any proliferous buds 
on the rachis, near the points, and if the fronds are not erect. 
The proliferous buds are wanting in the Exploring [added: Californian] specimens, and the fronds 
are more upright then in the Madeira plant.
        