
          Cambridge, Tuesday 


 My Dear Doctor


 Mr. Sprague has just 
 come (the snow-storm kept him 
 in yesterday) & taken the [Oreamphora?]
 to [crossed out: dissect &] draw. He 
 will save the flower as much as 
 possible.


 Poor Darlingtonia is plainly 
 a mere Styrax. And neither 
 I nor Sprague can see more 
 than 2-celled anthers, just 
 like those of Styrax. 


 Poor D. [Darlington] has got wind of his 
 genus, & is all agog to see it. 


 Sprague is figuring a new
        