
          Elliott's daughters, its present owner, & it will probably
remain with him for some time. I would not however
avoid turning to the Sarracenius to satisfy myself by
inspection, what his S. catesbaei really is, and I find that
I have not been mistaken in its character. It is, very nearly,
like the specimens I had obtained near New Bern, and as
Elliott himself has referred it to the figure in Catesby
which all other botanists, without hesitation, have considered
to be S. flava, I think there can be no doubt that
it is a variety of that species. It has none of the remarkable
maculaturi (white spots, or white interstices) so conspicuous
in Drummond's and Chapman's plant.

While on this subject I will request that, when you have leisure,
you would determine wheather [whether] in your judgment my proposed
name for this species (S. maculosa) is a good one,
& if not suggest some other, or take either drummondii, or
chapmani as a substitute. By the way if this paper should
be printed I wish you & Dr. Gray (if there) to exercise a
supervising case of it, altering or amending what may
be thought bad. But I presume it will be some time
before your next volume will go to press.

I am pleased to see Gray and Pickering have received
appointments in the exploring expedition. I fear that some
of the other appointments are not so good.

Another fact which I have ascertained from Elliott's Herbarium
is that his Iresine celosioides is the narrow leaved plant
which I gave you last summer, not the broader leaved
which Dr. Short sends from Kentucky, & which is probably
the true one. If ours be a new one you must devise a 
name (perhaps I. angustifolia) would do) and quote, as a 
        