
          had not been for 16 years. This
probably may afford some excuse
for my apparent neglect of you.
But though I did not acknowledge 
their safety to you I am perfectly
aware that I did not reply
to your query respecting some of
the ferns: that wd. [would] [take?] a
little wh. [which] I had not then at
command. But this has
been, if not to the fullest extent,
accomplished: & I copy
the notes I have made. The 
plants you will observe are
not numbered. One is
Hypolepis californica (Hook. [Hooker])
Aspidotis, Nutt. [Nuttall]
Pteris (Pellaea Hook.) andromedifolia 
& forms, or species?
Cheilanthes fendleri
Cheilanthes bradburii, Hook.
(N. [number] II.).
        