
          tho' under other circumstances, as
you well know, the slightest expression
of an inclination from your goodself
would determine my course. While
on the subject of names I must notice
your remark about Olney [Stephen Thayer Olney], merely to
explain to you that he is utterly unconscious
of wrong. He sent his Polyg'm [Polygonum]
to me at N.Y. 18mos. [18 months] ago as P. [Penns'm?][Polygonum pensylvanicum?].
When I told him it was my (new as I
thought) P. cernum or nutans [Polygonum nutans?], but that
he might deal with it as he liked. Last
winter he proposed to me P. dasycaul, 
which he understood only as a name
suggested to him [added with caret: (or approved, I forget which)] by you. He told me at
the same time he had intended to call it
after my name, but that you had it from
another quarter. I objected to P. dasycaul,
or rather I preferred as more expressive
of the habit of the plant one of my own
intended names, but of course left the
matter to O. I knew no more of it
until I saw the printed descrip'n [description]. I am
certain [underlined] Olney wd. [would] have done nothing he
thought "contrary to cannon [i.e. canon]" & least of 
        