
          the other has an inflated tube at the base.


 I have two fritill arise [crossed out: solitary specimens] which I should
 like you to see one [added: I have 2 sp. [species] of it] has 2- 4 [added: small] flowers in a spike, shortly petioled
 apparently not maculate, with semi-ampexicaule and lanceolsh
 leaves, alternate or in whorls of three. The other had 3 ls (2 spec.)
 large flowersm the size at least of the Meleagris and spotted
 like the flowers of the latter, in a folicate spiked and on long
 petioles, the flowers drooping; leaves alternate, distant
 The plant, as I have it [added: the long] 15 or 18 inches high [added: the other much shorter]. They do not answer
 the descriptions of Pursh's fritillarioes 


 The present collection was made by a gentleman [added: Herry Pattern of New Harmony] who
 was no a botanist and the specimens are generally very
 imperfect. The small spike of flowers you speak of 
 is one of the worse - There were two [crossed out: parts of one] [written above : specimens both]
 without leaves. [crossed out: or even stipule] I know nothing of its habits.
 I send you [crossed out: whort] [written above: the unique specimen] I have, to be returned, as it is now the only
 specimen [added: left] and it belongs to the Academy. In perusing
 the Bot. [Botanical] Reg. I found the figure of a plant named Asa 
 Graya by Lindley, I belive vol. [volume] XX, which looks very much
 like it, except that the spike was rather conical, but the
 same rotate flowers, same size, &c. I thought it had
 great affinity with it. Look again, I pray you, at Prigo
 num no2 which call nudum; it [crossed out: is] [written above: seems] different from
 other specimens of the nudum which I have in my herbarium
 it seems to have a double set of bracts below the head of


 [continues cross writing]


 I have again compared the 2 species and came to the conclusion that they might be the same [?] in a different stage
 of floration. The leaves are exactly the same, except that the large has no verticils of 3 as the others in both the flowers and drooping
 but corolla and petals different as I have mentioned 

        