
          If not [?] (which [Boissier?] has figd. well -
 like your sketch.) it is Thapsicae, according to my
 notion, & DeCandolles. I will examine [heedfully?]
 You know so much more of these things than me
 that I feel no confidence against your views.
 But having arrived independently at that conclusion
 & then finding it so put by DeCandolle, I felt
 more sure than before.


 I saw Guyot but for a moment. Felton, who
 had seen more, spoke very highly of him. I rejoice
 that he is such a man as you say.


 I have not seen any singular Angelica-like
 plant with dwarf stem & large woolly leaves from [Oregon?],
 Expl. Exped." When did you send it to me?


 I will look over your pigeon hole to see. [Tus?]. I
 have not yet taken up several things you sent me.


 Thine truly


 AGray 

        