
          your note under Riddellia.
 Nuttall described from a spec. you gave
 him of James, but gave no indication of how he
 came by it, leaving it to be inferred that he found
 it himself. Your specimen, which went to
 [Brown?], being mislaid, it was taken up in the
 Flora on Nuttall's char. only, as stated, (for the
 little fragment he gave me at Philadelphia was insufficient.)


 Afterwards, finding it in your herbarium &
 getting a clear insight into the whole matter,
 I prepared a proper character for the appx. to
 Compositae in Flora, which was not quite reached in
 part 3. & so has remained unprinted. In that [miss?]
 I gave guardedly but plainly the history of it, showing
 that it was founded on a plant collected by James only.
 That [miss], I read to you here, once. 


 In Pl. Fendl. I had the [?] (& a new sp.
 from Gregg, etc.) so I gave the missed character
 there, [printing?] it in Latin. I copied out my statement
 about James having alone seen it till last year.


 But before my [miss?] is printed, I get your Report
 in which you say it was "first detected by Mr. Nuttall
 towards the sources of the Platte", thus contradicting my
 reclamation in advance. I am the best possible authority!


 Is it too late to drop that sentence in the
 2nd Ed. now printing?


 What is your [?] for plants.


 Tell us about the new glue & how it does
 Will you send the Potentillae for [?]


 Yours ever,
 AGray


  
        