
          Now here is the point. 
 I have got Leavenworthia 
 growing, some laid aside, 
 in cold frame to bloom 
 next spring, some making
 a few flowers already. 
 Petals white [added: or purplish] with a yellow 
 base, or claw. 


 Is there really authority 
 for L. [Leavenworthia] aurea being any more 
 yellow than that? 


 And especially, is there 
 more than one species?. 


 If you should be sending 
 the mss. [manuscript] &c., would you 
 send me your specimens 
 for a little while, of the 
 two species. 


 The reason why I have to

        