
          Cambridge, Saturday Evening. 26th May, 49.

My Dear Friend

Your welcome and lively letter of the 23rd
reached us this afternoon. Your former one, of last
month, I have still kept on my files, to answer at a
moment of greater leisure.

Monday morning. An inflamed wrist
became so uncomfortable that I broke off my letter
and now proceed, with my left arm in a sling.

Sprague will now be able to proceed with your
drawings. The 4to [quarto] nearly done, when I sent last
was the new Portulacaceous genus. I have written
Prestele to put them upon a stone so as to have printed on
a sheet larger than ordinary 4to [quarto], as the Smithsonians
[contrib.?] is a sort of royal 8vo [octavo]. I have given him the
size, as I think correctly.

Engelmann has told me how the Texan plants fell
into the hands of A. Schule thro. Romer, a geologist
who was in Texas, [bought?] a set of L. He knew that
E & I were to publish them. Engelmann, who is quite
indignant has written to Romer to blow him up. But
E. well says it is partly his fault in not getting
them ready for publication sooner. Schule has
several plants in my Pl. Fendl. or in Gen. [?] vol. 2.
Only two, however, really anticipated with corrections,
viz. my Pavonia wrightii, & Abutilon velutinum (both
he has badly described. His Malva aurantiaca is
my Malvastrum wrightii, Pl. Fendl. His other Malva
= Malvastrum carpinifolium. His new [?] is
only the old. His [Paliuris?] texanus = Zizyphus obtusifolia
[Gen?] [?] ([?] obtusifolius. Hook. in [?] [?], of which we
have now good fruit.

        