
          Cambridge 30th. August. 1849

My Dear Friend

Thanks for your brief note of "Wednesday"
week. Henry & wife left us last Monday & went
down East to Bache. We had a nice time, but
not botanists, except Alexander (who took the room I had
saved for you) so I did not bring forward things I should
with a fit audience.

Soon I am getting to work again.

My brief notice of DC vol. 13 has gone to Sullivan [Sullivant?]
in time for Supp. no. - 3 weeks ago.

You ask me what I make of 680 Fendl.?
You do not mean that no.: that is a Solanum.

Do you not mean no. 740? But that is not
Nyctaginea capitata [?]. It is a Quamoclidion,
but not Q. nyctaginum [inserted below: now apparently Q. angulatum?] (which I have from Hartweg's coll.)

I have a good many new things [crossed out: from] of the [order?]
from W. Texas & the Rio Grande.

"[Hronia?] [Kermesiana?]" was the name that came
with the specimens. [Tex?]. Lindheimer. either by L. or Engelmann.

I have it flowering, and a most showy thing, now
in the garden, but no ripe fruit yet. The young
fruit, however, like every thing else about it, is unlike
[Hronia?] (A. umbellata fr. Calif. now in garden, has embryo
        