
          Can you not procure a stock? Ask for any
thing of mine you wish to see & if I am not 
working at the [?] I will send them without 
delay. I have just sent all my Gentianeae to 
Berlin to Grisebach who is writing a monograph. 
I am going on with my Californian dicotyledons
& shall have some pretty things for you soon, two 
new species of Streptanthus, & Drummond has
another from Texas. As soon as I saw Bentham's
mistake about MacranthusI corrected it. I 
shall adopt your name of Andromeda [croomii?]. Is
not Andromeda no. 29, A. rigida? or ferruginea [Andromeda ferruginea]? For
I cannot distinguish between the two. I am speaking 
of the Apalachicola collection. No. 21 is surely
Pinguicula elatior, no "lutea." The [Lanessania?]
catesboi Ell. [Elliott] seems quite distinct from any others. 
It was not in flower at the time Drummond
gathered it. I have looked at my n. [number] 444.III.
Texas, a scleroid [sclereid] plant. My specimens (fastened on 
paper) are very imperfect, but they shall be sent
to you if you wish. There was very little of it &
not a morsel now remains besides what is in
my own herbarium. I am extremely pleased
with Dr. Gray's Monog. of N. Amn. [Monograph of North American] Rhynchospora 
& shall reprint it in this country. We find 
it sadly difficult to get the N. Amn. journls. [journals]. 
Silliman's I have not and would gladly give its 
value for a copy in my own botl. [botanical] works (that
is, such as I can command) for the [last?] vols.
& purchase the continuation. But it is too 
dear to buy from the beginning since it contains so
[crossed out: which] [added: much] which, however valuable, is not botanical.

Glad am I to find that you are working at 
your N. Am. [North American] Flora. I think you ought to include 
Texas & all the east of the crest of the Crosby 
mountains, & all to the north of California, thus 
combining the natural & political limits. Texas
will be yours ere long, & though I cannot approve of

        