
          Ansd [Answered]


 Tuesday Evening. 28th Jany. [January]


 My Dear Friend 


 After looking over the 1st article 
 in the accompanying London Journal of Botany,
 will you carefully mail it to Mr. Sullivant. 


 I have to-day written to Hooker, directing 
 his attention to your full account of the 
 plant, enquiring whether Fremontia has 
 not the priority, and requesting Hooker, at 
 any rate to reprint your account of the 
 plant, as it completes its history. I do 
 not see that Lindley adds anything even 
 to what they know abroad, for Schlechtendal 
 in Bot. Zeit. [Botanische Zeitung] says it is Hooker's Batis vermicularis.


 Perhaps you have not seen Draper's 
 attempt. He seems inclined to play [bag?] 
 and entirely to slip out of sight the whole subjects 
 upon which I took him up. That he 
 has read the Review carefully is evident from
 his pitching upon a sentence which, prepared only 
 for a popular lecture, I forgot to qualify in the
 Review. If you look at p. 82 of Text Book 
        