
          R. J. Torrey
Recd [received] Dec 2oth
Ans. [answered] March 19th 1835

Philadelphia 18 Dec 1835

My good friend,

You must be very busy, since you have not had the
time to drop me a line, in answer to my 3 Letters now unanswered,
nor returned my package of plants sent for your examination.

If you are so busy till the 1st of March, we cannot correspond
in the winter.  Nor can I avail myself of your offer to
help me in my Su;emental Flora of N. America.  You might 
however have written a few lines, to state reception & say when
you would answer more at length.  The proposal to send a
Botanist & collector in Florida & Alabama, must be attended 
to betimes, and your must say at once if you cannot move in the
matter, nor join me, nor help me.  When I shall try to apply
elsewhere.  But surely you may help me if you like when more
disengaged.  My last letters have been ample & require
many answers.  I believe I have answered all yr [your] enquiries.
Except abt [about] the Adelia, having thought again abt [about] that genus, I have
found it in my old notes, clafied [classified] with Fraxinus & Chionanthus.
It is rightly so, a Fraxinacea! flower much like Fraxinus, fruit
& more like Chionanthus.  My new Genus Nudilus of Texas
& also West Tennessee Floritexensis, belongs to the same family.

If you have any other Genus of doubtful affinity, 
let me know, & I can help you, since I have found the natural
class of all N. Am. Genera.  There is none in certasedis, this
is paltry fudge, altho' coming from Jussieu.  But pray give
me credit at least for my sagacity.

I forgot if I mentioned to you my five N.G [new genera] of Euphorbia
[illegible] from Mexico, which may perhaps belong to Arkansas also.
You may see it in our garden as Euphorbia prinseti.  But it is my N.G
Peuradena coccinea.  Atl Journal page 182, The large
multiflurous nectary is quite peculiar & generic.  It is at least
a sub genus, if you will not divide the euphorbias, but they
must be, have been long ago 100 years ago, and must again now.

Since you are so busy you could not enjoy now my Philosophy
of Sustability just published.  I defer sending it till March with my
American Nations.

Your old friend

C.S. Rafinesque
        