
          Recd May 4th
Ansd May 7th

Botanic Garden & Nursery
Newburgh 2nd May 1836

My dear Sir

Your note of the 23d accompanying a couple of 
vols of Rafinesque's was received by me the next day from the
U.S. Hotel "The American Nations" with which I have been much entertained
and the 6 vols of the "Companion to B.M." which you were so kind as
to loan me return to you with my thanks in company with this 
note. The "Atlantic Journal" I will with your permission retain yet
for a few days. The [added: genus] Euphorbia as you say differs wonderfully in the
structure of the different sp. [species]-- so much so that it has often occurred
to me that the succulent leafless & almost leafless, [?] species
might with propriety be separated from the rest of the genus. I do
not think favorably however of Rafinesque's "[Pleurrodenia?]" as with the
exception of the singular glandular process in the flower E. Poinsettii
is very nearly related to E. punicea. I think in the appearance 
of the plant it bears a strong resemblance to the next Genus Pedilanthus.
It is very strange if it has not [added: yet] reached England. If you
have the last year of Curtis [added: Hooker's Bot. Mag] which I have not please look it
over and see if it is not there figured under some other name.

You speak of having slightly examined the flower of the Cycas
and of its agreeing tolerably well with C. circinalis of Richard [fig's?].
I suspect there is no great difference in the flower of C. revoluta 
& C. circinalis but as you recollect [added: in Mr. K's] there us a very decided
dissimilarity in the plants when growing. Mr. Kenevels'
        