
          Fremontian plants that were 
 sent him, and one portfolio of 
 Scrophulariaceae, including
 Mimulus, Gratiola, &c., but 
 nothing of Collinsia, Pentstemon,  
 Gerardia,  etc.


 Could you have taken a
 part of what Bentham returned 
 at New York? 


 Can Bentham have returned 
 only a part? One would 
 think that he must have
 found out the mistake ere
 this, and would have spoken 
 of it [crossed out: before] in his letter recently 
 received, announcing his [added: contemplated] absence
 from [crossed out: London for] England for a 
 year. 


 I was going to write to
 Bentham by to-morrows
 steam-packet (letters will 
 be forwarded to him in the
        