
          Torrey

Coll. Gregg.

no. 18. = Pyrropappus carolinanus
The queer Composita from Surinam wh. I returned
as Rolandreae = Rolandra argentea.

Fremont's R. 1846, which I queried for Hemizania
" S. " angustifolia as new, is
Hemizania decumbens, Nutt. Pl.
Gambell (Mr. lowell?],)

Monday, June 5th 1849

Dear Doctor,

I write this on an old sheet which had a
few mem. for you left over when I dropped the Pl.
Fendl. & looking over Fremont & Greggian specimens last
winter. It has been lying in my drawer ever since.

The other day while confined with my lame wrist,
(now, I am thankful almost well, quite, indeed, but weak.)
I took up those remaining Californian Compositae of
Ex. Exped. you long ago left in my hands, have determined
the known ones and studied those that are
new. laid aside for Sprague to figure a [inserted; remarkable] new Hemizania
a new Antennaria & three bran new plants which
I refer to Lessingia, though as to two of them you would
not have though it. While working at them I found
out that one of them was a plant that Bentham
        