
          
 Of course I have no idea of printing my discourse
 before the Boston [added: nat. [natural]] hist. [history] soc. [society] and shall decline
 their proposal.


 The plants from the mountains have some done 
 well: others poorly. Buckleyas had a hard 
 time of it. Many are dead; none I think will 
 flower this season; as they only put out from the 
 root. Diphylleia, Saxifraga Careyana, a new one 
 like it, also S. [Saxifraga] erosa etc., are now in flower. Astilbe 
 is in bud. [added: also Vaccinium ursinum,] One Carex Fraseri flowered. Hamiltonia 
 only starts from the root. 


 The big microscope has not come. It is coming 
 by a sailing-packet, whichever however has been due 
 this fortnight. 


 The Jamesia Californica was a mistake of Hook. [Hooker]
 Jour. Bot. [Journal of Botany]. The plant figured in Janusia Californica 
 (Malpighiaceae) wh. [which] Hooker in his enumeration 
 misprinted Jamesia! I have ordered & received 
 the first part of the Botany of the Sulfur, of which 
 I will speak when I have the pleasure of seeing you.
 Then we will also speak of Kunth. His adoption 
 of Asagraea goes for nothing. I have a line from 
 Bentham, with a packet of seeds from Hort. Soc. [Horticultural Society?]
 He is getting on with Scrophularinea [Scrophulariaceae?] and hopes to 
 send yours back in August. Harvey, formerly 
 of the Cape, is now Curator of the Dublin Museum 
 and is about to publish Coulter's coll. [collection] of California 
 plants.


 Pedicularis Canadensis begins in Linn, Mant. [Linné, Mantissa plantarum]
 p. 86 (Am. Sept. Kalm. [America Septentrionali Kalm])


 Mimulus ringens, herb Linn. [Linnaean Herbarium]! is the true plant. 


 The char. [character] in Sp. Pl. [Species Plantarum] is decisive also. It starts
 in Hort. Ups. [Horti Upsaliensis plantae cultae] where there is an elaborate & faithful description, 
 "Folia ... amplexicaulia"


 I find I had marked Gratiola officinalis [crossed out: Virginica] [illegible] Michx [Michaux],
 as G. [Gratiola] Virginica: perhaps wrongly, as I do not know the species 
 of the genus well. His desc. [description] will decide. I suppose it can
 not be that species of Le Conte so near G. [Gratiola] officinalis (if not the
 same): for I remember having previously examined that with Bentham, 
 in London. Bentham has the means of certainty. If you have 
 any doubt, leave out Michaux's syn. [synonym].


 Gronovius [crossed out: illegible] notices both species of Gerardia, but 
 his principal one, and the only one of which there is a specimen 
 in Herb. Clayt. [John Clayton Herbarium] = G. [Gerardia] flava, and on this the species must 
 rest indeed: for the specimen in herb. Linn. [Linnaean Herbarium] (Kalm) is G. [Gerardia] glauca!
 You will find that Bentham has noticed this in his synopsis of 
 Gerardia in Compan. bot. mg. [Companion to the botanical magazine]

        