
          Ansd. [Answered] Apr. 17th, 1837.

Glasgow, Dec. 6, 1836.

My dear friend

I did myself the pleasure of replying 
to your former long & welcome letter, soon 
after its arrival, & now I have to thank 
you for another which accompanied a 
small parcel that your obliging relative 
Mr. Shaw has just forwarded to me.
The little parcel for Arnott I have [crossed out: fo] dispatched 
to him at once. The (incomplete)
proofs of your Cyperaceae I heartily thank 
you for & shall notice [added and crossed out: in the] forthwith in my 
Journal. I must give Dr. Boott a peep at
them, that he may see how well you have 
labored on the American Carices.

I long to know more about your n. [new] genus from
Florida. I have no Taxus nucifera from China or 
Japan. I have what Wallich calls, doubtfully so, from 
the n. [north] of India, which may be the same, but the 
leaves are longer & there is no perfect fruit. Kampfer's [Kaempfer's Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, p. 814 & 816]
account of the fruit is, "Fruftus exteriori facie Nuci Arecae 
vel Juglandi tunicato similis; pericarpio constat exterius
nitidissimo, herbacei coloris, striis pallentibus variegato, 
carne molli fibrosa, saporis balssamici nonnihil adstringentis, 
et linguae apicem à brevi morâ [moram] mordentis,
cui nux laxe includitur oblongo-rotunda; teres et inaequaliter 
turbinata, saepe etiam incurva, nuce avellana 
longior, alterutra vel utrâque extremitate cuspidata, 
superficie obsolete albida, vel rusa, quodammodo striata, 
vel inaequali, ipso putamine lignoso, tenui,fragili. Nucleus 

        