
          Another interesting plant which grows abundantly in Florida is
the Cotton plant, Gossypium hirsutum & G. Barbadense. 
Our fields at present would give to a tropical man the best
idea of a field of snow. The specific character of the
Nankeen Cotton has not yet been obtained, as far as I can 
find. I have some of the seed, and if my wandering habits 
permit I will ascertain them next summer.

H.B.C.

The old G. herbaceum is discarded here for the more prolific 
native G. hirsutum.

Mr. Nuttall gives, in his Genera, Wheat, Rye & Maize. Why
should you not give cotton a place in your Book?

To Dr. John Torrey
30 Macdougal St. 
New York

Among the plants sent you from New Bern were good flowering specimens
of the plant which I have called the Peucedanum ternatum of Nuttall. 
But Dr. Pickering assures me it is not. Is it then new? I found specimens
on my journey with fruit half formed some of which I enclose. 
I have a [Syena?] half-an inch long with flowers! Other specimens
here are 5 or 6 inches long. I enclose a specimen of the former. 
I also enclose a few seeds of the white-flowering Argemone.
On reflection I fear that these last would injure by friction the others, and I retain
them for a future occasion.
        