
          Recd. Feby. 21
Ansd. Feby. 28

Near Tallahassee, 
February 3rd. 1835

Dear Sir,

Soon after my return to Florida in 
November last, I made a visit to Aspalaga on 
purpose to obtain, if practicable, the fruit of the
remarkable tree which grows there, and which
have called a Taxus. At the time of my visit
however there was no fruit remaining on the trees,
but on searching carefully among the leaves (of oaks,
which covered the ground beneath one of them I found)
the berries (as I took them to be) which however were divested
of their fleshy covering, the remains of which [added: or something like it,] I
also found accompanying the berry. Some time afterward
my friend Dr. Wilson, who was absent when I made this
visit, send me [crossed out: the] a fruit differing somewhat from
the above, in being smaller, and having the nut? sitting
in a dry receptacle, something like the cap of an acorn. 
I then remembered to havve observed, on a former occasion,
a tree growing with the other and differing in their particulars;
growth smaller, leaves shorter, and less acute and
pungent, but I did not then suppose if to be different
from the other, so great is their similarity. But 
I now suppose that they are different trees, the one
being a Taxus (for I think it is dioecious) and the
other perhaps the Podocarpus taxifolia, which according
        