
          I gave 3 specimens of Calycanthus out last time
 to three ladies to describe _ One was absent today
 I copy the best of the other two reports
 "Exagenous shrub, dicotyledonous
 "Flower
 "Two bracts _ a calxy of two whirls or 5 sepals each
 two whirls of petals 8 exterior _ 5 interior _ 2
 whirls of Stamens 8 exterior _ 5 interior _ anthers
 long _ of 2 cells filaments short & connate with
 the petals _ 3 stamens partly turned to petals
 Pistle, 8 or 10 carpels _ styles connate stigmas
 distinct overies distinct." Would Raf_
 have founded a new genus on this? All I had
 said of the plant regarded the gradual passage
 from [crossed out: petals] sepals to petals. 3 others report
 on Serracenias tomorrow But I chatter too
 long on this _


 Dr Griscom sent herein a book which I have
 taken the liberty to open _ It proves to be Medical
 Botany by R. Eglesfield Griffith M.D _ Dedicated to
 yourself & Dr Gray - 300 illustrations copied
 from Lindley & Burnet etc. _ Nothing original as
 I can see. Orders with Lindleys last names
 & your arrangement - Lindleys alliancis [alliances] being
 preserved as well as may be.


 I did not see Edwins letter _ I am not discouraged
 by your account of it. I would not
 expect an instantaneous return of gratitude on
 conversion though it may return suddenly when
 it does come, as come it must if the work has
 been genuine. Please inform Dr Gray that I am
 not in correspondence with Woods _ never saw
 the 1st ed. of his book. _ 2nd is not yet out I believe _
 I was willing to aid him it is true _ I would
 any man that did not know that he was a quack
 Eliminating a half dozen errors would never make
 him a rival to Dr Gray for a moment -

        