
          Ansd [Answered] Sept. [September] 22nd 1857


 Sept. [September] 19 Saturday 6 p.m.


 New Haven


 Dr Torrey


 Dear Sir,


 Among the plants
 I brought home the other day is a 
 Cheilanthes, collected by Dr Newberry
 on the Cascade Mountains &  in California
 by Dr Bigelow, that is nowhere
 described, although very distinct and
 well marked. I wish to publish
 it as Ch.gracillima , but as the 
 report of [Whipple?] Expedition is
 printed I don't know where to
 put it. What shall I do with it?


 I have not all of Wright's numbers.
 822.824.5.6.7.8.9. of the first expedition
 and 2113.5.6.9.20...5.7. [added: of the second] are wanting.


 Hooker's Cheilanthes vestita I want
 to separate from that of Swartz and to
 call it Ch. Lanosum (Nephrodium fanodum Me)
 The real Ch. vestita I have from N. [North] Carolina
 & it is very different from Hooker;s plant
 Ican see no difference between Ch. Alabameuris 
 & Ch. myriophylla & think there is none.


 Very truly & respectfully yours


 Daniel C. [Cady] Eaton
        