
          Ansd Verbally

New Bern May 22nd '36 [1836]

My dear Sir,

I wrote to you, the other day, in answer
to your letter of the 12th instant, enclosing a specimen
of my Anon. dioscoroides, and some male flowers of the
Anon. taxoides. I wrote in great haste in order to save
the return mail, (which however was lost by an error
of my watch,) and I find, in a reperusal of your
letter, that my answers have not embraced some
of your inquiries. You ask what is the colour
of the fruit of this remarkable Taxoid when mature?
The fruit which I obtained last fall was not in 
the best state for determining this point, having been
gathered some time. I have [added : however] some of the fruit in the
same state in which I received it, and which
does not seem [crossed out : ed] to have changed its colour since that
time. I should call it a pale red, with a shade of
brown, and a slight glaucous hue over the whole.
The young fruit is very glaucous, (like the young berries of
Juniperus virginiana, or more so.) I once asked a lady
who lived at Aspalaga concerning the colour of the fruit,
and she said it was red. I think however not a very decided 
red. With the aid of the fruit which I have with me,
I hope you may come near the colour.

In my search this spring I could find only the male flowers
        