
          Wednesday morning. 


 My Dear friend 


 Your letter of the 16th to 26th came up 
 from the post office just now, and I must despatch this 
 sheet in hurried reply. I have been unwell with a
 sudden and severe cold, so that I have done  little since 
 Sunday. However I went yesterday to the annual meeting of the 
 Amer. Acad. [American Academy], & came back and lectured in the afternoon. Throat 
 still sore. (The OEnothera like Missourensis I still think is that
 species. Sprague came up yesterday, drew the 
 foliage & bud of Lewisia, also caudex and root from a
 dried specimen I have from Hooker, & then began a pen-
 drawing of your Streptanthus crassicaulis. This morning 
 the Lewisia is in full bloom. (It will only make one flower) 
 a beautiful flower 2 inches in diameter. Hooker's figure 
 is bad as to petals. You will have a beautiful colored
 drawing of it. I have the Cacti from Engelman [Engelmann], some
 of them alive. Got nothing by last steamer except Lond. Jour.
 Bot. [London Journal of Botany] which contains a pretty long critical notice of the 
 two last volumes of DC. prodr. [De Candolle's Prodromus]. I think by Arnott! 


 A new edition of Lindley's Nat. Syst (3d) [A natural system of botany, 3rd edition], but with 
 new title, the Vegetable Kingdom, full of wood cuts is 
 by this time published in London. Up to this time 
 Hooker has taken no notice of the reclamation of Fremontia
 I sent him in Feby [February] to be inserted in the Journal. 


 As to the few Scrophulariaceae remaining, I think best not 
 to send them until we receive them back from Benth. [Bentham], promised 
 by forthcoming steamer, with his whole N. Amer. [North American] notes. Probably 
 you will be able to make them all out here in July. 


 I suspect the $2. a price will do pretty well for the outline
 drawings, at least when the specimens are tolerably get-at-able.
 Some of them are hard cases. You must give $3 for the Lewisia,
 which is colored. I will have some Compositae drawn;
 they you know are all here.
        