
          recd. March [March?] 1834


 The plants for Hooker are not all named, and I send them
 open [underlined: open], that you may serve them as you see fit before they go.
 I will express my own wishes, however, in regard to them.
 Ammania hypobyehia [hypobyehia?] [underlined: hypobyehia]. I like htat name and wish it continued
 if there is no insuperable [underlined: insuperable] objection to it. It means the
 same as submersa, only is of Greek derivation.


 Carex -- which I sent to you as C. Tahulanas [Tahulanas?] -- maybe C. formosa
 but if new, I wish the name continued -- I have not studied it.
 "Cyperus" -- is, I suppose, C. erythroihiyus [erythropoiesis?], but not knowing for
 certain, I left it for you to name.


 "Heuchera" -- I call H. foliosa. I cannot refer it to any
 described plant. -- -- "Helonias graminea" Ell! is not
 I think that of the Bot. Mag. but I cannot now determine.
 I sent it to you I believe as v. pulchellum; let it be continued,
 if new species. Is it not Melanth: racemosum, Mx?.
 Melanthium hybridum N. -- Do you know whether this is
 veratrum parviflorum, of Herb. Mx? [crossed out: If not] Or may it not
 be Melanthium latifolium, Lk? If you have a cap to the 
 Enc. Meth. I wish you would see. If not any [added: of] these, I would
 call it veratium (for such I believe it to be) heterophyllum,
 Oenothera -- if not O. ambigua, must be new & may be
 called O. gonoptera. -- The Silene -- white flowered -- is already
 named. I cannot refer it to any species known.
 Solidago -- one flowering in May -- I have ever considered
 undescribed & would call it S. maia [underlined: S. maia].


 Another species of Solidago -- rough leaved, with long tapering
 base -- I cannot refer to any described species -- & would call
 asperata orscabrata. -- The smooth leaved one (ss. in the 
 package I sent you last year) I know nothing about and 
 cannot speak upon it. -- you can do as you please 
 about sending these plants to him before they are published.
 I never intended sending them without informing Hooker that 
 I claimed them & expected he would not meddle with them.
 I am too patriotic to give them up to a foreigner. If you 
 think best, you can take out all the unknown species, and
 send off the rest, waiting till they are settled before you send
 them. Heuchera villosa? in the package is a troublesome
 plant to me. The Genus needs settling.

        