
          promising to give them hereafter in a more permanent 
 form. The last no. [number] (I suppose) has it. You must 
 look after it. 


 If nothing prevents my early settlement at Cambridge
 I shall hope next month to go on with the interminable 
 Compositae. By that time you will perhaps have 
 formally attacked some of the following families. Let 
 me know when you want specimens of books from 
 me, and they shall be forthcoming.


 I cannot yetg understand Udora: but the specimens
 here, had almost the limb. of the perianth, &
 the summit of the [gyroecum?]: so that I have not 
 yet seen with my own eyes, the open apex of the ovary? 
 I want to examine it in a younger state, also ripe fruit. 
 I see distinctly the open foramen at the apex of the ov ules.
 Yet Richard (Ann. Mus. [Annales du Mus�um?] figures the seed as
 anatropous. There will be peculiar difficulties  
 temptations, I doubt not at Boston, and I need more 
 grace than I have to sustain me. I am sure I
 need not ask an interest in your prayers in this
 behoof. I shall let you know how things go on.
 I look forward to see you all again in Sept. [September] or October. 
 In the winter, when we are ready to print Flora
 again, I can doubtless get leave [added: of absence] for a month or so 
 for that purpose. 


 I remain truly and affectionately


 Your attached 


 A. [Asa] Gray
        