
          Cambridge, May 30th 55 [1855]


 Dear Dr.


 About the "nasty little 
 Umbellif. [Umbellifer]"


 Wright got it, or something 
 very close in Texas, 2 or 3 
 fruiting specimens, which I never 
 mentioned because I could make nothing 
 of it [added: also again in 1851 in S.W. [South West] Texas]. From the seed I raised
 some plants one year, very 
 small white flowers. I let it 
 go to ripe fruit & then pulled it 
 up. I send you enclosed one 
 specimen, & plenty of ripe fruit. 
 I thought it nearest [Oreomyroliis?]
 but on seeing Musenium sp. [species] in Hb. [Herbarium]
 Hook. [Hooker], I remember thinking it likely 
 to belong to [crossed out: ?]
 that. On examination, however, 
 it would not [well?] fit well, but 
 yet not badly, if the seeds be really [crossed out: C?py]
        