
          Dr. Torrey


 As to your question, Has any one noticed the 
 abnormal flowers or Ruellia? This is the earliest-noticed case on
 record. The paragraph I copied from Linn. Hort. Ups. [Linné's Hortus Upsaliensis] ends, "uti 
 idem in Ruellia videre est." And in the same work, under Ruellia,
 p. 179, he notices them particularly. Dillenius noticed it before him, 
 in Hort. Elth. [Hortus Elthamensis]


 The University has recently got another legacy, of 
 $15000 from Mr. [Levinus] Monson. He left Yale College $20,000 
 Mr. Amos Lawrence has just given President Hopkins 
 $5000 for Williams College. Yours ever 
 A.G. [Asa Gray]


  I have a painting of the most splendid Water Lily 
 you ever did see. 3 or 4 feet in diameter, lying up on the 
 green leaf which sets off the white finely. It is large 
 enough to show the transition of [crossed out: petals] sepals, petals, &
 stamens [crossed out: half?] across the whole house. I have for you, a 
 parcel from Tuckerman; which I will send in 
 next parcel.
        