
          The bracts being amplexicaule together and brittle with long reflexed tips
 whose various fragments are stack about in the wool, The bases frequently
 split in several places by the increase of the tissue underneath, so as easily to
 simulate stipules in some places. In the specimen of our plant there is not
 a trace observable of anything like insertation or lamina of a stipule besides
 the three bracts at each node."


 Be so good, my dear sir, as to compare it again with your semprori
 and see whether [crossed out: our] [written above: the following] diagnosis of ours is right.


 " Very tomentose leaves above the buseal whorl by twos and always
 accompanied by three clasping and reflexed, but very brittle and sometimes
 shattered bracts that are present at each node. Pedicels smooth, setiform,
 unilateral. Involucre turbinate. Paleolor obovate spathulate, very wooly,
 verdant or brownish at their exerted tips. Flowers small, numerous, whitish
 or slightly flesh colored."


 The [?] you will find, if you take the trouble to read our every, please
 to point them out to us that we may correct them in our general report.
 I have now under examination a set of about 150 california plants
 among which I have 2 small specimens of the Prickeringia unfortunately
 without fruit. 2 cadorent violets which I think new, one with an
 adundance of yellow flowers and leaves in the form of a hand (not the ordinary
 pulmate form) it might be called manolia, small hand. The other has a 
 round dissected leaf like the delphinifolia of Nutt [Nuttall]. Serveal Hosseckia among
 with [added: like what I consider as] the grandiflora of which I send you a sample as I find it somewhat diffferent
 from a specimen I have received from you in pl. Fremont very remarkable
 by the round leaf accompanying almost every embel. I send you a fragment
 of a [?] which I do not see described. I have but one specimen.
 It is near the lortipedius but a much stouter plant. 4 or 5 eriogona all
 different from what I see in the Herb [herbarium] of Acad [Academy] of Sci[Science] and in mine [countious?]


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