
          remain here longer. But I am getting ready. 


 Old Wangenheim must take the credit of having discovered the
 Gaylussacic structure of our spec. [specimen] in V. [Vaccinium] resinorum (his Andromeda 
 baccata), unless he yield it to Clayton, who says V. [Vaccinium] frondosum
 has 8-celled [added: ovary, and a] berry, with a few osseous seeds. And Muhl. [Muhlenberg] in 
 Fl. Lancastr. [Flora Lancastriensis] says of both "B-acea 10-sperma]."


 I am anxious to have news of you all, not having heard 
 a word from Princeton since I left New York. How is dear
 Herbert? Have you made a cap or head-piece that will work 
 well? I shall be right glad to see him again. 


 Bailey is somewhere "down East,"  having passed through Boston 
 and left his microscope meanwhile with Drs. Wyman & Gould,
 who are making good use of it. It is very still in Cambridge, 
 almost every one away; and I am much alone. I have now 
 in flower a very fine Gaura, from Texan seeds (G. [Gaura] Lindheimeri, Engeln. [Engelmann])
 with large pure white petals, fading rose-color: which so far as 
 I see, is entirely new. As it is a fine annual for cultivation, 
 blossoming for a long time, I hope it will perfect seed with us. 


 Monday morning. No letters; and what surprises me
 none from Sullivant; so that I am yet quite uncertain whether 
 I am to meet him on the 16th. If I do not hear from him 
 to-morrow I shall be quite at a loss. 


 I am about to send a copy of Darlington's Rel. [Reliquiae] Baldwinianae
 to Brown. As I shall write him (I have lately been 
 re-reading his note on placentation with interest) it occurred 
 to me that I would mention to him the case of Obolaria
 as a new one whole interior of ovary placentiferous or ovuliferous,
 the more interesting from its alliance to Orobanche. I have
 two or three questions to ask him about it, which thro [through] Dr Boott,
 I may get a verbal answer to. I think also it should be 
 mentioned to Bentham, as he will be led to examine it from 
 its reference by Endlicher to the end of Scrophulariaceae.
 And our anterior observations might as well be secured. 
 A note on the subject to Bentham would do it, so far as he is 
 concerned, and perhaps no one else with will be very likely to touch it 
 until our turn comes. Excuse this hasty & 
 Very botanical letter. Remember me affectionately to
 all the family, and believe me Yours faithfully 


 A. [Asa] Gray
        