
          have a basis for sound reduction. 


 Is the letter press of Whipples 
 Cactaceae printed or not? 
 See that the stones of Cactaceae
 are not erased. 


 I hope you are not going to 
 lose Engraved plates from Paris. 
 I should feel anxious about them, 
 & write to DeCaisne at once.


 Price of Fl. Brasil. [Flora Brasiliensis], &c. 
 mentioned in letter to Thurber. 


 That's funny about Tetraclea 
 being too near Trichostema! ! Why 
 did you not tell me before? 
 It is like, and perhaps [crossed out: decisive?]
 decisive that the genus must be
 Labiatae. Send me a proof of the 
 plate. I think it likely distinct,
 by nearly regular corolla, &c., 
 but will reconsider. 


 Thurber can show you the 
 Fendlera [rhynchotytreides?] 979, 
 Fendler. = Eriocoma, Nutt. [Nuttall]!
 I cannot believe Aster Bigelovii
 to be Machaeranthera, have not 
 looked at it again. 


 Ever Yours 
 A Gray 
        