
          Pavonia lecontei, then please ask LeConte to send on
 a flower or so, as soon as possible, for we are waiting.


 I return you the spec. of fruit of "Malvaviscus [Flor?]."
 you sent. It belongs to a Hibiscus!


 Will you look in your herbarium, for a
 ripe seed of Gordonia lasianthus. Those sent
 me from [Wilmington?] had a minute embryo,
 probably stunted: I want to send off the drawing
 to the engraver.


 Well, after looking at all the materials &
 the evidence, I am more than ever convinced that
 Mentzelia laevicaulis is distinct from M. ornata.
 Frem. 82. 1845, is M. nuda. The base of the ovary
 is foliose _ bractiate, however, in almost all the forms.
 " 416 = M. pumila.


 Friday morning.


 Dear Doctor


 This sheet has been long [?] filling.
 Mrs. Gray's illness, & other interruptions the cause.
 [?] I have two of yours unanswered, the last 21st.


 I am to-day trying to revise my [Pencedamus?], by
 the aid of your specimens, & to finish so as to send back
 to you by Carey, who threatens to go on Monday.
 We have not looked at them till now, and propose to
 do no more than is necessary to me.


 The Hypericum of [Oregon?] you said before Pickering called
 H. linifolium, now you say H. angustifolium. Either way
        