
          Why do you admit Amphicarpum of Kunth and Amphicarpus of
Elliot, both identic, are they husband & wife!

Why do you admit the genera of Collins now and not in 1826, they had
been published long before?  you must confess that you worship Idols like
others & yr [your] botanical Idols are now Hooker & Decandole, as they were once
Linneus & Willdenow.  You cannot be independent as I am.

I am afraid that your Lysimachia loomisii is not new but the L.
angustifolia [Lysimachia angustifolia] of Mx, which I have from the South & has lately been found in
New Jersey.  What is the difference?

What are the dates of the Genera Amianthium & Leimanthium?
they are my Genera Crosperma & Euonyxis [Eunoxis] fl. Tel. long ago stated to be
N.G. not believed by you.  Now you do believe in others!  This is what I
cannot comprehend, why wont you allow my sagacity.

As to Grasses I hope you are more correct, but when I shall undertake
their revision I fear you will be found deficient also, as too slow to admit
reform.  I know already that you oppose Jussiere & myself in deeming the
number of Styles, stigmas & stamens generic & even indicating families!

You continue to have Viscum verticillatum!  Have your read Smith in
Rus Cyclop [Encyclopedia] abt [about] it.  We have no such plant, the tropical Sp. is quite
different & aphyllous!  See my monograph.

Do you pretend to know the Gentiana japonaria [Gentiana japonica] of Linneus! which had
yellow flowers.  See Linneus!  do you consult him ever?

I have found one of my shrubby Labiate of Florida in Bentham as the
Satureja rigida of Bartram discov [discovered] 60 years ago, yet in none of our books!
but it is not a Satureja.  I make it a N.G. Piloblephis! will you wait 60 y [years]
to adopt it?  There are in Bartram travels 20 trees not yet in our works!

Mr. Durand just tells me that you have been in Philadelphia at
the Christmas vacation, & you forgot or had not time to call on me!  how
is that?  were you too busy with Nuttal.  He tells me that you are busy with
your own flora, when you will admit no plant not seen by you!  and yet
you don't call to see mine!  A time may come for it however.  Your flora
will thus be your own certainly & not a general flora.  Mine is a mantissa
to all the general floras.  I describe my own speciments, & only add the Sp.
not seen in the monographs when needful for contrast.

I rather think you ought to wait till Hooker, Decandole, Nuttal, &
myself have published all their labours, to give us a general flora of the United
States; but you may think otherwise.  If I had known you wanted to publish
so soon I would have waited after you.  We shall not often clash however as
our views are so different, & as you will not admit my plants unless given
to you (since you wont come to see them) our two floras will be su;lemental
to each other.  You will blend & mix.  I will divide & ascertain deviations.
I shall double the bus [business] of Michaux perhaps.

Will you ask again the Lyceum of Nat. hist. to exchange a bit of their acts

        