
          Albany June 20th 1818

Dear friend,

Why do not you write lately?
I expected a long scolding letter before
this time about the Manual. I sent
you 264 pages stitched up, some 
time ago; now I send you the continuation
to the 348th page.

I attend particularly to all your
remarks; though I do not adopt 
all your opinions. You say Mr. [John Eaton] LeConte 
has seen an Asclepias without 
the thick stigma; therefore you won't 
return it to the 5th class. If Mr. L.
saw such a plant, it was not an Asclepias. 
This circumstance ought certainly
to divide the genres. But with all
his known accuracy I suspect he was deceived.
Where could the [stamen?] be inserted?
We must reject all analogy to place this
in a class but the [?]
        