
          I thought the specimens would be
more useful in your hands
for the purpose of exchanging with
Botanists who have something adequate
to give in return.

Your specimens of elms have
not cleared up my difficulties; nor
do I think anything would, excepting
having trees seen in flower and in
fruit.

Your Ulmus Americana
is so very like the plant, which in the
London gardens is called Ulmus
effusa, both in leaves and flowers,
that I do not know well what to make
of it. In the gardens about Paris [added: our] Ulmus
effusa is called Ulmus Americana.
I am therefore of a loss to know what
the Ulmus Americana really is.
If our Ulmus effusa is not your
Ulmus Americana, then we have
an American Elm, different in
        