
          I willingly take upon myself to send a list of plants to Mr. 
Wilson, and only wonder that the propriety of my doing so did not
before occur to me. I can, very conveniently, obtain from Dr. 
Chapman the other list I wanted, and should be sorry if you 
gave yourself any trouble on that score. 
I would write an article or paper on Southern Plants if I knew
what shape to give it, to prevent its being too rambling.

Dr. John Torrey
30 Macdougal St.
New York

As you purpose to abolish the present genus Nuttallia, and to give to
Mr. N. another genus of plants, would it not be well to make the plants
at present thus distinguished a section under Malva as
"Callirhoe" the name originally given them by Mr. N.?
My Malva "nuttallides", being a very variable plant, the specific 
name may be changed to "protea," or any thing else you think appropriate. 
As we have a "Lycium carolinianum", should my plant prove to be
new it might be called "L. floridanum."
        