
          at a single plantation have been destroyed," etc. If these
pasages do not prove that the orange is native there, they 
prove at least that it is naturalized, and therefore may be
admitted into our Flora. When I reach Charleston I will endeavour
to make arrangements to procure the fruit & flowers
of this Orange during the ensuing season. The Indian
war, it is thought, is now closed, & perhaps I may go into
East Florida this spring, but I rather think that I will postpone
it to the next. I met the other day, with a young gentleman
who has resided for some time at Key West & who has paid 
some attention to the botany of the Peninsula. He says that
Cactus [crossed out: australis] triangularis, and C. grandiflorus are 
indigenous there, and Ficus australis (?) at Key West & both
there is a Gossypium on the peninsula which he thinks
is different from any of the described species! How I do 
long to get into this Terra australis incognita!

When I reach Charleston I will endeavour, through Dr. 
Backman, to have Elliot's Herbarium sent to you. 
Don't put yourself to the least inconvenience to print my
paper on Sarracenia, but, in case it should be printed, 
I want some 20 or 30 extra copies, the additional expense 
of which I will, of course, defray. I have read Corda's 
discoveries in Gray's paper, with the greatest interest & wonder!
How precisely analogous as they show, is the impregnation of plants
to that of animals.

Is it not probable that Rudbekia[Rudbeckia] apetala, Torrey, is the R. 
Radula, Ph? (collected in Georgia by Bartram.) The 
plant is very abundant here in damp pine woods. 
It is said that Magnolia pyramidata of Bartram is M. 
auriculita, of authours. In looking over the copy translations
which I have, some of the figures of which have been 
        