
          confidence in Dr. Boott's good
disposition & [?], &
am the more unable to account
for that phraseology in his
popular remarks in C. macrocephala.
I need not write the "allusion",
but please look at it anew, &
say what you think on "sober
second thought." I wrote to
Dr. Boott about it, in the kindest
way, & told him the fig. in
Sill. was taken from his own
or I did not recollect from whom;
& as you know long ago; he
made no reply, & I did not expect
one. I wished you to see the matter,
so I mentioned it that you
might know I saw it.

Now,
I add, that fig. was from a
younger plant, & the fruit had
not come up to his last fig.,
& as I see it on the specimen you
sent me. Indeed, he seems to ignore
that of the fig. & all about
it. Tho' he refers to Am. specimens,
it seems to me he must have 
figured some other.
        