
          Cambridge. August 30, 1848


 My Dear Doctor


 Joe (now returned) brought up your
 letter of the [26th?] this evening.


 Yours of the 23rd, containing the $12 (thanks first) crossed
 mine. I will note a few [?] from that first.


 I cant promise to examine your set of Monterey
 plants. I should like to see the Malvaceae, upon
 which I have been now so long at work. But in the
 long notes I am making in Pl. Fendl. I do not touch the
 species of Sida (except to complete the gener. character) &
 castigate all sorts of things out of it) [?] [?]. But
 when I take up Lindheimer & Wright's Texan colls. I
 shall be obliged to investigate the species of these genera which
 I see is no easy job. I shall try to characterise all the spec.
 I find in N. Amer. of Malvastrum, a genus which you may
 think I have gone too far in establishing, but which leaves
 both Malva & Sida much better off. When my notes use
 family completed ^ [inserted: [?] this family] I must try to send them to you for inspection
 & comment.


 Englemann is not going to do Greggs
 plants at all, except Cacti & his other [pets?] as they
 fall in his way. On the contrary he is sending on a
 part of them for me, as well as his set of Wislizenus
 for my use.


 Describe yourself anything you choose
 out of them. Probably I should go through no family
 clean except Compositae.


 I have (last night) a set of Coulters Mexican plants,
 unnamed.


 Many nice things are flowering in the garden. Euploca,
 [Lipachus?] [pedmontans?], Lindheimera, Barrattia, & Malva
 ([?]) pedata - which I think you do not well understand,
 is in [?].


 Proof of Fremontia was promised before this, but has not come.


   
        