
          And. [Answered] Dec. 9th


 Friday, 26. [added, in pencil: Nov. 1846?]


 Dear Friend 
 When I wrote you about 
 the Tessaria? of Fremont's 2nd Coll. [Collection]
 did I give you its number? It is 
 no. 388 (1844). I have a kind of 
 recollection that he gathered it on 
 this side of the Rocky Mts. [Mountains], but I 
 wish you to make sure of this. It 
 ought rather to be from California, 
 for I have just found a fragment of the 
 same in the Coulter Herb. [Herbarium] from California. 
 (It is in better state, so that I think I
 can make out the character of the
 receptacle, which alone seemed to differ 
 from Tessaria. 


 There is another Composita of
 Fremont [added: 2nd Coll [Collection]], of which you have the only 
 specimen, and that poor, so that I 
 did not name it, except perhaps Helianthella??
        