
          Greenwich Street
 25 June 1846.


 My dear friend, 


 I yesterday received from
 Mr. Holton [Isaac F. Holton] a few of his MS [?][manuscript?] Species & they came
 to me in 2 proof sheets of your State Flora,
 containing, as it chanced, the genus Polygala.
 I find, on questioning Mr. Holton, that you are
 printing an appendix, or addn. [addition] to the Flora, &
 I should be glad if you can't put these little
 errors in the Polygala to rights yourself.
 You see I am jealous of your Botanl. [Botanical] fame,
 & would rather you should correct yourself. 
 It seems to me that your descripn. [description] of P. ambigua [Polygala ambigua]
 belongs [added with caret: in some respects] to Nutt's [Nuttall's] P. cruciata [Polygala cruciata] to which you 
 refer it. Then again, if Nuttall's P. fastigiata [Polygala fastigiata]
 which, in the Flora [added with caret: (of Torr. & Gr.)[Torrey & Gray]] you refer to P. cruciata,
 should turn out to be the plant you call P. Nuttallii [Polygala nuttallii], in that Flora, the latter name
 will have to be supressed. Does the real
 P. ambigua, of Nutt. exist at all in NYk [New York]? See
 if you can sweep up these matter clean, as
 I do not with another to have the chance of
 correcting you.

        