
          and a little of the young fruit. This is to be regretted. 
The [crossed out: you] fruit, and of course the female flowers, (like the male)
occupy the axils of the le aves.

Concerning the other Taxiform plant I can give you 
still less information. The only fruit of it which I have 
seen is that which you possess. It was gathered late, 
and I don't know what is its true colour. I have not
for the last two years visited its locality (Flat Creek).

Aspalaga is now uninhabited. Circumstances
obliged me to go to another point on the Apalachicola 
where I did not find this plant. I can therefore only
say, "make the most of which you have, or wait, 
with what patience [crossed out: illegible] you can, another season," 
when, if I live, these plants shall be thoroughly 
examined. I left Florida this spring in great haste. 
The last month which I spent there was an anxious
one, on account of the health of my daughter whom
I left last summer in Madame [Heloise] Chegaray's School
in your city. I designed to have gone on immediately 
to New York, but when I arrived here I found, by 
letters, that the cause of my daughter's illness having 
been removed, she had nearly recovered, and was 
out of all danger. I therefore stopped here awhile
but shall go on soon. I fear my summer will not be
without its disquietude. A murder has been committed within
20 miles of my plantation by a marauding band of Indians,
and there appears now to be some panic in that section of 
country. Still as I am so near to Tallahassee, I hope there is 
        