
          Prof Torrey St Louis Febr 5th 1862
and Febr 24

My Dear Doctor

You see I am
not to be put off by silence.
Here I am again.

Those [?] trouble me
a great deal and I should
like to clear up some of the
dificulties or all if possible.

About the same time I wrote
to you, I also addressed a letter
to Prof Braunof Berlin, and he
had the kindness to send me a
few bunches of leaves of the
original P. Llaveana and also of
P. cembroides (though not the
original. I shall get from
Dr Parry his specimen of
your Llaveana. But to
conclude I must have a
few leaves or a branch of
Newberry's P. cembroides to
compare. Would you have the

        