
          Saturday morning.


 Dear Doctor


 The parcel with your letter [added: of Monday] reached 
 me yesterday. You will before have received a 
 letter of mine, in which I agree with you that 
 Prestele [crossed out: will] [added: should] not fall into Endicott's hands, and 
 besides he will not leave Ebenezer.


 I have just turned over the Fremontian plants 
 you send. The Malpighiaceae? you send are not those 
 figd [figured] by Bentham and I should suppose not Malpighiaceae  
 at all. I will look at them and 
 the OEnothera's, some of which are new. 


 As to the Cruciferous plant, the trifoliate 
 leaves should not stand in the way, Look at Cardamines
 and Dentarias. And your plant is I doubt 
 not from the collection of the figure (which is not before me)
 a Dithraea [Dithyrea] perhaps. D. [Dithyrea] Californica, Harvey.
 That however had a regular terminal racine, rather loose, 
 Is yours in the natural state? or do the dense axillary
 clusters come from the top having been bitten off? 


 Harvey has also a new gen. [genus], Papaveraceae, I 
 hope it is not your fine one!! I will look at 
 the Feby. no. [February number] of Lond. Jour Bot [London Journal of Botany] when I go to town. 


 I had commenced studying the Lindheimer Texan pl. [plants]
 which I hope will hereafter prove more and more interesting. 
 He is now wayback on the Colorado where he says he hopes 
 the plants have no Latin names! 


 As to Bowen's article, I told him his paragr. [paragraph] about Geologists 
 &c was all gammon [gamin], and made him strike out a part of it, 
 but he was obstinate about the rest. Peirce & myself told 
 him plainly he was not fit to write on those subjects. I wonder 
 he did so well. Have you, in New York plants Quercus macrocarpa
 from Schenectady and throughout Western N.Y.?
 It must not be overlooked. Yours ever.


 A. Gray
        