
          C. [Cuscuta] parad. [paradoxa] is said to have a 5 parted flower and 4 lobes
 of the corolla and 4 stamina! C. acaulis is said to
 have a corolla campanulate and urceolate! None of ours
 flowers in June.
 Rafin. [Rafinesque] describes another species in Spreng. [Kurt Sprengel] Neue Entdeck. ["Neue Entdeckungen im Ganzen Umfang der Pflanzenkunde," 1820] 1. p. 145 according
 to Choisy: C. aphylla, floribus sessilibus glomeratis, 4-fidis [quadrifidis]
 stigmatibus capitatis. Hab. super compositis at Wabash.
 I can not ascertain that!


 I will assist you as well as I can in your Monogr. [Monograph]
 of the Asclep. [Asclepias] and with so much greater pleasure, as I
 take a great interest in that tribe and have already
 made drawings of the flowers of different species here.
 We have here Asclepias tuberosa, incarnata, purpurascens?
 syriaca, verticillata, obtusifolia, amplexicaulis
 Acerates longifolia and viridiflora, Enslenia albida.
 Some other species grow some distance from here, in the
 leadbearing hills of the South West. If you want
 drawings of any of them, you will oblige me by naming
 the species, and it would be best to give me a rough
 sketch of some species you have already drawn,
 so that I can see how you like to have it
 executed; drawings [added: parts] of Acerates viridiflora, longifolia
 lanceolata and a new ? species which I have called
 A. geyeri (collected by Geyer for Fremont on the Des Moines
 River) I have already made, also of Asclepias
 paupercula, Podostigma ? and one or two others from dried
 specimens. A. geyeri is remarkable for its long
 cylindrical root 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick.


 Dr. [Wenderly?] has been warmly recommended to me
 by my Friend A [Alexander] Braun in Carlsruhe [Karlsruhe] and I have some
 fine plants collected by him in the South of France.
 His scheme to go to the far west is impracticable,
 at least this season.


 You have heard of the unheard of inundations, which
 have also prevented me from a trip to the South west of
 our state. The travellers [travelers] in the west have suffered much by       
        