
          a plant of the Heliopsideae, with the foliage of Balsamorhiza, &
 inflorescence of Heliopsis-- but, with villous achemia!-- [Asa] Gray, in the
 Flora [the Flora of North America], under Heliopsis, gives [symbol] 1. Euheliopsis DC. [De Candolle] with "achemia
 smooth," from which I infer that DC. has other [symbol symbol]. with hirsute
 achemia, to which this plant may belong. My vol. V of the Prod. [Prodromus, i.e. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis] was
 burnt, & I learn from Browne [possibly Daniel Jay Browne?] that no copy exists in N.Y.!
 I hope to hear about it from you, if Gray be too busy to enlighten me.
 See also, in their places, with my (judicious!) remarks, passim,
 a Chrysopsis-Scorzonella ([an gen. prop.?]) & a sp. [species?] of Calais. 
 Except here, & there, I have not ventured on naming the
 specimens, beyond Compos'ae [Compositae] for I have no books to enable
 me to do so, with satisfaction-- but I have, I hope, arrayed all
 the families & genera for you, so as to save you all trouble,
 in going thro' them. I have numbered the genus Pentstemon [i.e. Penstemon]
 1 @ 7 & Castilleja 8 @ 14 & I expect from your [goodness?], the
 result of your determinations, in these two difficult genera, as
 I have neither specimens nor Books to aide me. The plumaceous
 plants are few, collected evidently with an eye to economical
 purposes. Of Cyp. [Cyperaceae] there are 3 Carices [Carex] & a Scirpus, only! Of the 
 former I have laid out Exemplars, for your herb. [herbarium] which you
 will find, by & bye, in their places; & of S. leuticularis [Scirpus leuticularis?], Torr. [Torrey] ?
 There were only 2 characteristic spec'ms [specimens] & a young one.
 One of the former I retain, for the present, but, if on examination;
 you find you are not well provided with it, please 
 let me know, & it shall find it's [its] way to you, here after, with
 the Carices. Where you find but one spec'm [specimen] you may know
 I have retained none, unless in the case of some common thing;
 & where there are only 2, I have, in some cases, as you
 will see, asked you to lay by one for me, where you [heed?] it
 abundance, yourself. There is now, however, the less need for
 your impoverishing yourself, on my behalf, as Gray writes
 that even if I do not go to Cambridge, he may so far "mollify"
 as to send me a set of his pickings, which may contain (by
 good luck) the things which I desire. By the way, you will find
        