
          received from me. I am glad that he has done so.
He gives me a transcript of your observations upon several 
plants and mentions two to which you propose appending 
my name. I had decided that the erigeron was new. 
The flowers of the recent plant are pale purple & pretty, it is 
one of the earliest of the spring flowers & continues in 
flower until May & June. The Eriogonum I also deemed 
new. The small tree or shrub (for it is found in flower in
both states) which you deem a Sapindus (if Sapindus 
it be) is not the Sapindus sebifera of Elliott. I wrote 
a description of the inflorescense taken from the living 
specimens which accompanied Dr. Short's specimens. 
I shall request Dr. S. [Short] to transcribe it for you if he has not 
done so. Compared with the Sapindus, the fruit is not 
a capsule but a stipe or the sise [size] & appearance of that of 
the Melia azadarack [azedarach]. The embryo is somewhat triquetracy 
but it is not trygynous nor are the flowers hermaphrodite 
but in all of the great numbers of trees that 
I have seen dioicous. Still it may prove polygamous. 
The male flowers differ from the female very considerably. 
I have but two specimens at hand both females. The 
barren trees are the most numerous, Pinnae never 
less than 7 pair sometimes 9 pair most frequently 
8 pair. Elliott's Sapindus 4 pinsial, petiole not winged in 
the least degree. Opolotheca [Oplotheca] floridana. This plant I 
examined with extreme minuteness & had the living 
plant in hand. I did not think of refering [referring] it to 
the Linean [Linnean] class Monadelphia. I think it should 
not be placed in this class. I have many specimens 
gathed [gathered] in Florida the past season. The Arkansan plant 
is much more densely tomentose than that of Florida 
& is a well marked variety if not species. I found the 
plant in 1820 in Alabama Gonolobus biflorus not 
described in any work that I have, Rivina since forwarding 
Dr. Short specimens I have found a description in Nuttall's 
Genera which work I had not at the time. Banks of 
Red River in Natchitoches Parish, La. Yellow flowered 
cruciferous plant found in Texas & abundant in wet places 
of the Prairies in the vicinity of Fort Towson in 1821 
in Jefferson County Alabama. I have thought there is two 
species. In some localities plants are found without stem 
& in other places all the specimens are more or less caulescent. 
Plants found in Alabama had not formed the silique. 
They were stemless. I have no specimens from thence.

        