
          I am sorry to learn that so little confidence can
 be placed in the account given in Long�s 2d Expedition,
 as I had intended to embrace there in the list.
 Can you by reference to your notes without too
 much trouble tell me which species in that 
 account are erroneous? � or should I neglect the
 whole as uncertain? I send you the Triticum 
 pauciflorum Schw: � Was it not a new species?


 I hope you will take the trouble as heretofore
 to send me the result of your examination of the
 plants I send. Many of them I am unable to
 determine with certainty with the few books I
 have access to here in the West. Eatons Manual
 7th Edition is my principal authority, and his descriptions
 are not always sufficiently [added: minute] to enable me to determine
 our plants.


 You will find a beautiful narrow leaved gentian
 resembling in some respects the G. crinita, but which
 may rank as a distinct species. It is sometimes
 branched but usually consists of one straight erect 
 stem crowned with one large flower as in the
 specimens sent you. The lower leaves are more
 round, but there like the round leaves of the hair bell [harebell]
 (Campanula rotundifolia) are seldom to be found. One of the specimens
 sent you exhibits the rounded leaves
        