
          Please select the Plants (dried specimens) of Eliza's for Downing
 as soon as you can [200?], and sent to him. He has sent 
 me some fine fruit trees. I will, as matter of business send you 
 the 8 dollars for E. [Eliza]. 


 Now as to the Fremontese plants. I fear I cannot 
 make them a study so as to aid you, certainly not at this 
 moment. I fear I can only answer specific questions. 


 New gen. [genus] Papaveraceae. That should be noticed. 
 There is a new gen. [genus] Papav. Calif. [Papaver californicum] Coulter described in London Jour [Journal of]
 Bot. [Botany] for Feby. [February] Romneya Harvey. But the plate of it is not 
 yet given. I have been trying for a week to get to Boston to
 look at the Journal & say if yours be it (My copy is sent to Sullivant.) 
 but have not made out yet. I will try to go tomorrow. Yet that 
 is lecture day. 


 I will then compare your queer Crucifera with Dithreae,
 Harv. [Harvey]. If my memory serves the leaves are same (There 
 are plenty of Cardamines with Compound leaves & the leaflets petiolulate).
 I remember the figure of that had a loose terminal [raceme?]. I will 
 compare in town. 


 No. 301 (1843) may well be Gaura coccinea, no doubt.
 No. 560 (1844) = OE. [added: nothera] montana Nutt. [Nuttall] (ex descr. [description]) The subsessile
 & not having pods should distinguish it from a OE. marginata (which 
 you have a specn [specimen] of).
 no. number = a starved OE. [Oenothera] Missouriensis, possibly new; probably not.
 751, & 753. = Either OE. [Oenothera] pallida or albicaulis var. [variant] (Nuttall has
 confused the two a little.)
 No number =  OE. n. sp. [Oenothera new species] (place next Jamesii)
 81 (1843) = OE. [Oenothera] Missouriensis
 337 (1844) = OE. [Oenothera] alyssoides Hook. & Arn. [Hooker & Arnott]. Agrees better with 
 a Snake Country specimen I have than with Hooker's
 figure.
 No. number = Oenothera (Chylismia) n. sp. [new species] diff. [different] from Nuttall's
 (you can compare) It sustains that section beautifully.
 Call itOE. [Oenothera] Fremontii, or Sisymbioides, or crysimoides.
 another, without number, without number, with the foliage &, somewhat of 
 Gaura coccinea, the flowers &c. of Euoenothera, will form a new
 subsection (between Kneiffia and
        