
          x Leaves persistent


 V. [Vaccinium] Myrsinites
 ? nitidum, [saren?]


 xx Leaves deciduous


 V. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. [Lamarck?], Michx. [Michaux]! [added: [Pussh?]]! Db! Hook. [Hooker] & of your Flora as
 to spec. char. [specific characters] not as to detailed descr. [description]. (V. tenellum, [Lit.?]
 You are wrong about Pennsylvanicum. The original char. [character] says
 leaves serrulate, lucid both sides.


 V. Canadense. (excellent spec. [specimen])
 V. Canadense your Pennsylvanicum, but of no other. Many as are
 the names to spares in this genus, yet I find none for this.
 It has been called V. virgatum, [Lit.?] down this way, but can't be.
 V. Constabloei
 V. compubosum.
 V. galerans &c. of the South (V. tenellum. Ell.)
 V. Misuteum, Buckley 


 V. dumosum = Garfussacia, [cutes? = as you say
 V. frondosum
 V. [ursureum?]
 V. resinorum


 Hoping that your plate is not yet lettered or struck off. 
 I mention that it is a pity we cannot keep Lasierpa. The 
 name Chiogenes, Salisb. [Salisbury]  has the priority by 10 or 12 years. Don
 must have known it; for it is in Hort. Trans [Horticultural transactions]: Dunal not. But if we 
 could dodge this, we should come upon Raffys [Rafinesque's]  Glyciphylla, 1819:
 with no gen. char. [general characteristics] to be sure, but a name with correct synonym 
 may be as good as one with a wrong character. Don has made 
 his out of yours. Dunal has pitched it a little; but has mistaken
 the short ovate filaments for lobes of a disk. The technical character
 to distinguish from Vaccinium is in the Anthus, which are not produced into tubuli,
 but [crossed out: one] [added: each cell is] 2-mucronate or sub 2-aristate at the apex, just as Pernettya & Gaultheria
 [added: and [deliscent?] by a slip longitudinally.] Chiogenes differs from Pernettya (with a superior berry, and same habit [habitat?]),
 only in its adherent calyx, and from Gaultheria by same char. [character] with the addition 
 that the ovary is also baccate in fruit. How could De Candolle keep
 up his order Vaccineae, with such things, and with 3 or 4 of his genera "Calyx 
 semiadherens."


 I have just received a package of Icones Pl. [Plantarum] & Lond.  Jour Botany [London Journal of Botany]
 from Hooker, which I will bring you, I trust, your share of, ere long.
 Letter by previous steamer, I will bring it also.


 I am waiting to hear from Sullivant, whom I proposed to meet at Cumberland 
 on the 16th inst [instant]; if he assents, I shall hope to see you at Princeton
 a day or two before that time. If he appoints a later date, I shall 

        