
          West-Chester, Penna [Pennsylvania], Feby. [February] 2. 1853.

My dear Sir,

When I received your gratifying
communication, last week, I was in such a hurry
to indicate (while it was yet time) the literal error of C
for G, in the name Darlingtonia, on the lithograph,
that I had not time to make the appropriate acknowledgments 
for the honor you have done me. I trust,
however, you will give me credit for a becoming
appreciation of the favor, without any more verbal
display of sentiment, on my part.  I will only deliberately
repeat the declaration then hastily uttered, that, if this
genus shall stand, and be permanently associated
with my name, I would not exchange it for
the column in the Place Vendôme, at Paris.
The plant appears to me, to be not only remarkable
in its features, but rather pretty, withal. I 
suppose it is, like its kindred, uliginosa [Utricularia uliginosa], in its
habitat. I shall be very curious to see the detailed
description; and shall be impatient to procure seeds,
or a living plant, if to be had through my friends
& correspondents in California.

As Mr. Bentham was so inexorable as to merge the
old Darlingtonia into Desmanthus, I may be excused
for a slight trepidation, lest he may try to reduce
this Darlingtonia to a section of his genus Heliamphora!
I have not seen any account of Heliamphora, except what
        