
          not equal Spragues, 
 but they will be almost as 
 good for the engraver. 


 If you have any drawings 
 now you want made,
 I will get him to do them, 
 if you like his work.


 What do you think I 
 have given him to do first.
 Your gen. [genus] Scoliopus,
 and from what you say 
 we are trying to make the 
 pedicels look like worms. 


 I told you Newberry brought 
 a specimen with a single 
 flower. That I have 
 made the most of. After 
 using it, in a collection 
 of [Brit.? [British?]] Nat. Hist. [Natural History] [Jvez.?]
 just placed in my hands, 
 [crossed out: I have] by Mr. Samuels,
  Sonoma Co. [County] California.
        