
          there also in 1835. Have you ever seen other specimens [added: of this last] than
those sent on to you from my herbarium, which were returned
and are now on it?

With regard to the Rhus, about which I do not wish to
trouble you again, I will abandon my intention of describing it,
and relinquish it with pleasure to yourself to whom I first communicated
the plant. As long as I was the possessor of the best 
information respecting this plant, however incomplete that information
was, it appeared proper, or at least not improper, that
I should describe. But as Lundgren will doubtless furnish you
with the flowers, a most important item in the description, and
probably more mature seeds than those sent, my description
would be imperfect, and require additions, if not corrections, as soon
as published. I therefore transfer the right to name and publish
to yourself, and you may, if it gives you pleasure, attach my
name to it. I do not object to have others attach my name to
plants or anything else, but in the two cases to which I alluded
I did, and do now most decidedly object to the attachment of
my name. One case was, the publication by myself, of a plant
(whether of own discovery or not) with my own name given to it as
a specific name; that was never done by any man that I know
but Rafinesque, and was out of the question; you however may
do it with propriety. The other case was, that Harvey and Bailey
should name a plant after me, who had no other merit in the
matter than that of communicting liberally to them, what had
been collected and given to me by another, when the name
        