
          I have 2 better flowers, 
 and even a bud to examine. 
 You shall have 
 one by Hook or Crook. 


 Now, as soon as the drawing 
 is done, had I not best send
 it, & a flower on to you. 
 Will you not study it, 
 complete your character for
 Whipple's Report, and
 write a good talk [added: about ] & character 
 of it for Newberry's 
 Report, put into a note,
 that is all I do for him,
 give him a few characters 
 for foot notes, & let him do 
 his own talk ad libitum.
 Let me know if this 
 will please. 


 The flower [added: is regular, &] has 3 ovate-lancelate
 sepals, petaloid, 3 very 
 narrow pedals, appearing filiform, 
        