
          Mem. [Memorandum] Dr. T. [Torrey] (Tuesday Evening.)


 Urtica pumila, I find, has 
 a minute penicilllate stigma, 
 just as in Urtica proper, except 
 as to size: it is deciduous early, leaving 
 a capitate brownish point. 


 Pilea is not said to be stringing, 
 some are glabriusculis, which 
 is all that can be said of
 U. [Urtica] pumila. I'll look [erased: at]
 up Meisner's & Lindley's char. [characters]
 to-morrow, and Swartz's descr. [description]
 of West Indian species.


 Urtica Canadensis, in the
 Garden, cultivated 2 years, [erased: is]
 has a perfectly naked stem, 
 not stringing hairs except on the leaves. 
 Its fruit &c would make it a
 [crossed out: better genus] difft [different] gen. [genus] from true
 Urtica, but there are other varying forms. The seed becomes 
 transverse. 
        