
          he considers the Viola clandestina.  It is totally different from any [sp?] I
 am acquainted.
     Since my return I have examined with great care the [illegible] of
 the Lecontia. It is several particularly remarkably different from 
 that of the Arum & Calla, I mean the seed, and in this it seems 
 to differ from the whole tribe of [illegible].  The pericarp is 
 [illegible], not fleshy; one seeded uniformly, while the others
 makes up the great bulk of the end.  The embryo is however of a very
 uncommon & curious structure.  It resembles very much that of the
 Ruppia maritima as [illegible] by [Gartner & Rich?].  It is as large as
 a pea & neatly [illegible], with a deep furrow on one side which [illegible]
 the [plumula?] which is at one end intimately united with the substance
 of the globular body.  The Ruppia was placed by [illegible] among
 the [acoty...?], but Richard unites with the [illegible], a 1 [cot?] allied
 to the Aroideae.  The directive of the [plumula?] is antitiophus or contrary to
 that of [illegible] like Calla [illegible].
     The Arum triphyllum has precisely the same berry & seed as the A.
 Dracontium, though I have little doubt of its having the same
 structure as the A. Dracum &[ 3 phylum?]
     I should like to see or have a good description of the A. [illegible]
 which according to[Eaton?] is found in the state.  I suspect it is a
 variety nearly or any rate a nearly allied species to the 3-phylum
 of which Leconte says the quinatum of Baldwin is another variety.

        