
          Recd Sept 11 And 13

Columbus Geo, 1st Seot 1854

Dear Sir

Enclosed are some specimens of the male flowers
of our Borya. I had despaired of getting them even this
year, having in some unaccountable manner mistaken
the time of flowering, thinking it to be the last day of May or 
first of June, when in fact they were in full bloom on the
21st August. Tho in May some scattering flowers did appear
but all withered before I could get specimens, and thus, I 
thought the sole opportunity for the year was last. The larger
part of the male flowers wither and fall before the female
open, of the latter I will forward you specimens in a short
time, when I hope you will have material sufficient for its
complete description, I think I mentioned in some previous
letter I had found the shrub in but two localities and among
them all but one that bore female flowers and it yet stands
alone, for notwithstanding all my searching it is the only
one I can find. To get the fruit of the Croomia here seems
to be impossible. I [crossed out: ?] do not think it is destroyed, but
that the flowers are in some way imperfect and that the
ovules are not fertilized and the ovary falls off as soon as the
flower withers. In the flora of North America in your remarks
on the [Plyosanthes?] and Chapmannia there is mention made
of the Arachis, is that thought to have [?] kinds of flowers
as well as those genera? You remarked in your last that
I would be doing a service to botany if I would publish a list
of these plants that seemingly connect the Western & Southern
floras. I have been for a few years engaged in collecting the 
plants of Muscogee Co Geo (in which COlumbus is situated) and
        