
          locality and that in the western portion of the state, where
I shall probably be next season, and will not then forget it.
The flower of your Sisymbrium dentatum is a dirty white 
colour exhibiting in the center a bright yellow, from the magnitude 
of the anthers, which are large for so small a flower.
I must beg leave to protest against your preference
for niveum over nivale, as the name for Riddell's new
Trillium. The name has reference to its flowering among the 
snows of early spring, and not to the snow-white colour of
the flower. I regretted not to find in your late letter
any mention of another undetermined plant which I sent
you. It was a sprig, with leaves only, of a small
shrub which I met with in the Barrens of Ky. without
either flower or fruit. The leaf, I observe, is highly 
aromatic and pungent, very much like that of the  Gaultheria. 
Do you know it? Is my new Eupatoreum [Eupatorium] likely to stand? 
Your offer of a suit of algae is thankfully accepted.
I have a few but should like to have a full collection
before I begin their [their] study, which, I hope, by the aid of 
Agardh's and Greville' books, will not be difficult.

You ask me what I have been doing this season
in the way of Botany? Not a great deal, I fear, yet still
I have not been idle, some proof of which, in the form of 
farther specimen, you will probably be furnished with by the
spring. Excuse the desultory matter, and the miserable manner
of this letter. It is written with a rascally metallic pen
which I cannot guide or manage.

Very truly yours &c.
C.W. Short

        