
          Recd. [Received] July 19 


 Enq. [Enquire] about Geyer


 St. Louis July 8th 1844


 Dear Sir


 I am glad, you received the small
 parcel of plants sent to you, nearly a year ago!
 In September last I sent a box containing different parcels
 of plants to Mssrs. [Messieurs] Wiley & Putnam; the box contained
 also letters, dated August 26th for you and others. Some
 of the parcels have come to their destination soon,
 others only in the last months, and some not even yet, 
 so far as I know. Your parcel was directed to
 Carey & Co. 90 Pine Street N. [New] York.


 I am very grateful for the small, though quite sufficient
 specimen of Cusc. [Cuscuta] umbellata? As it is of importance for our
 flora, I will try to get a few flowers of Humboldts specimen
 from Berlin or Paris, to be able to compare them. At 
 present I have only what Choisy [Jacques Denys Choisy] copies from Kunth [Carl Sigismund Kunth] - he
 not having seen the plants himself. His description is
 very incomplete, but agrees as far as it goes with
 Dr. James' Plant, except that in this the lobes of the
 corolla appears not to be reflexed, but erect or
 somewhat open, and the filaments are not linear
 but subulate from a broad base; size of flower,
 length of pedicels etc. agree. 


 Dr. James' plant is nearly related with my C. [Cuscuta] Polygonorum
 and C. pentagona, also somewhat with C. americana (the
 west indian). They are distinguished by the finer texture of
 the flower, [?] the corolla also the capsule and by the
 depressed ovary and capsule, without any thing like a stylopodium.
 Some have the dry corolla covering the capsule (C. americ. [americana]
 from the west indies, C. Cephalanthi (Missouri, and C. cuspidata, Texas).

        