
          Asa Gray's excellent figure in
the late edn. [edition] of his Flora!
What I especially want to ascertain
is whether, in an advanced
state, the fertile
primules are flattened out
& covered with sori, as in
C. acrostilo. [Cryptogramma acrostichoides?], C. crispa &c.

I was more pleased than I
can tell you to find our true
C. crispa in Dr. Bigelow's very interesting 
collections marked
"Grassy Valley" California.

I have sent you & other
friends of the late Dr. Bromfield 
the posthumous
little vol. (for private distribution)
of that excellent man,
his Egyptian Journal. Accept
Lady Hooker's best regards & wishes,
& believe me, faithfully &
affly. [affectionately] yours, 
W.J. Hooker.
        