
          Wilmington, Del [Delaware], June 8th 1869


 Dr. Torrey,


 My dear Sir,


 Thanks for
 your letter of 2nd [?]. I have
 delayed an answer until I could
 go to Phila [Philadelphia], and look up specimens
 and descriptions of Pachystima
 myrsinitis in the Academy. In the
 Hub, there, I find Fendler's New
 Mexican specimen, the original one
 of Nuttall with his label (Oreophila),
 and those of Parry, and Hall and 
 Harbour. All these specimens agree
 well with each other and with
 the figure in Hooker's Flo Bor Am [Flora boreali-americana]
 The New Mexican is a larger one
 than the rest and has the appearance 
 of having been taken from
 a more diffuse and larger shrub.
 [crossed out : than the rest]. Nuttall's is from
        