
          1-cotyl. just like your Tripterocalyx*, which nevertheless
is a good genus by its [scarious?] winged fruit, & the entire erect
[?] of the corolla. If your figure is correct, & the plant does not
also expand more showy flowers (for A. kermesiana begins
like impatiens, etc.) W is, I doubt not the Nyctagenia
capitata, Chois. and is certainly of that
genus. My dried (wild) specimens laid out to
glue I cannot get hold of at this moment,
but the half-grown fruit in the garden shows
a young embryo nearly outside of the albumen,
& the cotyledons [two simple drawings inserted: club-shapes with a single and double head] equal & entire, but
they are still to grow much.

Jane is improving, most decidedly
notwithstanding our housefull, for some time past.

My mother is now here on a visit, came down
with Joe yesterday, will stay a few weeks.

In haste

Thine truely

AGray

P.S. If [done?] send back the plant of of Benth.
Voy Sulph, you have. I have now received
the last part & can have the work bound.

*You have never sent me a specimen of this, unless it is
among those of Fremont 3rd. I have not as yet distributed, till I study
        