
          testimonial for Holton was sent last week_
 I told you I had found the spec. of Fremont 2nd Exped.
 Plants  _ [?] [?] Sprague has them.


 Letter from Saul [?], he is better
 John will soon come here and I think I shall
 detain him all winter. I sadly want help.


 Hook & Am. [?] [?] [Suppl.?] say the same as to Malva obtusa,
 but it is clearly difft. [different]. Compare the spec. I pluck & enclose
 with  M. rotundif. from your yard. Besides fruit & short pedicels the
 corolla is only 1/4 the size.


 I add fragments of a Texan [?] which I am figuring for the
 Genera _ (Lindheimer & Wright), now in flower, 7 feet high.
 Do you know it. In [?] it comes nearest A. [?].
 & Sida fragrans. I add a very small leaf.


 It is not your A. [?], which I suspect may
 prove A confertiflorum. A. rich [Fl.] [?]. The genus wants
 overhauling, from full materials, sadly.


 You say you noticed the radicle was inferior in Sida
 malvaeflora. etc. My authority for supporting you did not. I
 give below, from yours of July 31st.


 [at bottom of page:]
 The leading char. for genus I have been obliged to take from a point
 you worked out well in all you knew- the double stamen in [column?].
 DeCandolle does not use the char. of radicle superior, in
  Sida.


 [Barring] [?] (which I have not [?] in [Geranium?] now) why is
 not no 89, your G. fremontia? I have given it as G. pentagynum,
 var. Englemanns real G. pentagynum is just your G. fremontia.


 I will put in the Dalea under your name. But it is too near
 to D. aurea, except in the dwarf and depressed habit.

        