
          the note, plate & specimens of 
 Obolaria I sent Brown to the 
 hands of the Princeps & who saw 
 him examining them, and who says 
 he will do his best to get something 
 out of him. 


 The weather is still very 
 dry here, but it now looks as 
 if rain could not be long deferred. 


 Are there any Fremontian
 Primulaceae, Plantagos & Statices? 


 How strange that the salt 
 regions in the west should apparently 
 have no Statices, like Siberia &c. 
 while the Chenopod are well
 represented.


 You will, I suppose do the
 Asclepiadeae (& Apocynaceae?)
 I think I had best attempt 
 Fraxinus, as I can get at 
 Mem. Instit. [M�moires de l'Institut des Sciences et Arts?] and Lam. dict. [Lamarck's dictionary]
 & try to do something with Bosc's
 species dubiae. 


 Do not forget the

        