
          And May 15th

Columbus 24th April 1853

Dear Sir,

Enclosed are two plants which I am at a loss to determine
exactly. The Leguminous one, I presume is a Vicia and 
seems to me to approach the microantha more nearly than any
other described in your Flora, still, I cannot satisfy myself of its
identity with that, from the mere description. It seems to be rare as 
I have met it in but one locality, close on the river. It grows from
8 to 12 or 18 inches high. The flowers when fresh are reddish purple tho
they dry blue, the stigma hairy, the hairs arranged around its exteremity
in a radiate manner. I do not recollect of finding a specimen with
more than three pairs of leaflets the stem is 4 sided slightly winged.
The grass bears more resemblance to the Elymus than anything else
I am acquainted with but some how or other I can do nothing with it
with the means I have at hand. As to the Borya which I sent you
last fall, I had compared it carefully with Elliots descriptions and
was unable to satisfy myself of its identity with either, and mentioned
the accuminata for the purpose of directing your attention to a remark
of his in describing that species,Viz, "The shrub which the Botanists who
have visited the Southern States, have been accustomed to refer to it [?] accuminata
resembles it in habit, except, that it wants the spinous processes represented
in Michaux's figure. But the calyx is four parted, the stamens four
and some of the flowers appear polygamous. It probably belongs to a distinct
genus. But, as I have not seen the living plant I cannot decide
Ell. Vol. 2. p. 675. I thought it possible that the specimen I sent you
belonged to the plant to which Elliot here alludes and which is mentioned
nowhere else in his work. I have since collected the fruit, it is
dark blue 1 or 2 lines long with a sweet greenish pulp, enveloping the kernel
which is immediately enclosed in achastaceous tesla with nerves running
        