
          Cambridge, July 6, 1847 


 Dear Friend 


 Hurry alone has prevented my 
 writing to you for some time, though you 
 have for some time owed me a letter. 
 I want to hear about the Philada [Philadelphia] Professorship 
 et. [etc.]


 I hastily write now, to ask you to 
 send me a few flowers or rather fruits of 
 Rumex salicifolius (Hook [Hooker]) & R. Brittanica [Rumex Britannica], 
 also R. [Rumex] verticillatus. I have some 
 mems. [memoirs] on the original specimens & think I can 
 clear them up a little. (I have sent to Oakes
 for R. [Rumex] pallidus Bigel. [Bigelow]. I suspect that &
 R. [Rumex] salicifolius are what we call R. [Rumex] verticillatus.


 I will keep my printer on something 
 else till I hear from you. 


 It seems that Mr. & Mrs. McGilvray
 suddenly changed their minds & went to New York. 
 Very likely they are now with you. If so 
 present my best regards.


 [crossed out: Cary] Carey is gone, a week ago. 


 Yours ever, in haste, A. Gray
        