
          [continued from last page: Oclock-]ony [Ochlockonee].  Mr. Nuttall mentions it as indigenous on the Chattahoochee
(properly Chattohochee) not far from Columbus,
and Ellicott reports it as plentiful on the Conechee [Canoochee], where 
he saw it while engaged in running the Florida line many
years ago.

As you have concluded to suppress the present genus Nuttallia, 
my specific name for Malva nuttallides becomes
inapplicable and should be altered. I wish you would exmine
the white-flowered Gentiana which I carried you last
summer, and let me know if it be new. Dr. P. assures me
it is not the G. alba of Muhl. Cat. [Muhlenberg's Catalog] and I think it different
from G. angustifolia to which it approaches nearer than [added: to] any
other with which I am acquainted. The present is the proper
time to get additional specimens but its locality lies much 
out of my way. Dr. C. supposes he has found a new
herbaceous Styllingia, of huge dimensions. Really it 
is a great pity you cannot (or will not?) visit Florida
and the Southern States. I shall return to New Bern as soon as 
the spring opens, and remain there until July. About the 
first of June the Dionaea is in bloom, and many other
interesting plants. could you not drop down there about
the last week in May? and make my house your home
for a week or two weeks. Visit Benner's Pits & gather
plants &c. Four days! would bring you from New york to New 
Bern. Think of it and let me know. If you cannot come
yourself I would be glad if you could send Dr. Gray, and
indeed I would be glad if he should accompany you.

I am pleased to hear that Dr. G. is engaged in an introduction
to Botany. A good thing of the sort is much wanted, and I doubt
not such will be his. I am much pleased with the two works
of Lindley which I got in N.Y. at your reccommendation.

Respectfully your Obt. Sert. [Obediant Servant]

H.B. Croom

To Dr. John Torrey

        