
          Ste Anna River Delaware


 To Dr Torrey


 Dr hi, I this morning
 procured from the marshes below Philadelphia
 some specimens of the lotus, in bud,
 the flowers being too large to pull off
 there I forward to you not in the order
 I wish but accomodating [days?] off to 
 circumstances. For you doubtless are aware,
 the plants are originally brought by the 
 elder Bartram from Florida and
 planted in the marshes south of Philadelphia
 where they now flourish admirably.
 Thousands are now in flower. I cut one
 the corolla of which measured 13 inches in 
 circumference and a leaf [?] on a [?]
 & over but measured 6 feet in circumference, 

        