
          flowers and the involuerum has a large vertical spot, which 
 I do not find so well marked in my other specimens - perhaps
 they are more advances in inflorescence?


 I would be very happy to see you in Philadelphia 
 for many years I have seen you but a few minutes
 and would not have even recognized you, if your name
 had not been mentioned. As I have perhaps more
 Nuttall's plants in my herbarium than are in that
 of the Academy and this being now confided to me,
 We will have much to do together. So to avoid the
 trouble of long walks [added: &c] come at once to my house/
 I have a room for you and I will try to make
 you perfectly confortable [comfortable]. Unfortunately, I have
 no lady to do you the honor of my house, I am now
 a poor widower with my only son, but we shall do
 out best to make you comfortable.


 The sericocarpus is new, unless Wr Beatham had had
 the good fortune to see it before me, I call it Californicaus
 I ave also a seilena with orange flowers, small plant but large
 flowers with 2 lobed petals and 2 lateral small teeth - leaves
 senile ovate lancolate. 3 var of Zauschseria of which probablyy
 a new species [added: with] long spike foliate or bracteate; bright large
 searlet flowers, calis & corolla; leaves those of young ocuothera
 bienenis. I have a new Denothera with deeply obcordate
 or bilobed petals. Your saxifraga peltata the description
        