
          Ansd. [Answered] Nov. 8th

Providence Nov. 3d 1853.

My dear Sir

I have picked out the Eriogonums
from the portion of my collections that I have recd. [received]
& hope there may be something new among them. I
have sent them all & would thank you to name 
them according to their numbers. If they are of
any use to you you can keep them, as I have
duplicates of all but one, marked I think "E.
inflatum? [Erogonium inflatum?]" If this should prove to be that species
I should like to have you save it for me as you 
already have it. I find I have but two 
specimens of Megarrhiza [cul? [cultivars?]], of which I send
you one. I am confident about the fruit
opening when fully ripe as I had difficulty in 
finding ripe seeds, the squirrels carrying them off 
as fast as they drop out. I sent an allied
individual 951, which may be of interest, also 
no 1002 a fragment of the only specimen met.
I take the Fouquiera to be F. spinosa [Fouquiera spinosa] H.B.K. [Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, by Kunth] from
the description in Wisliz Rept. [Memoir of a tour to northern Mexico ..., by A. Wislizenus]. It is a rather
meagre specimen but it was just commencing 
to flower & exceedingly difficult to find fl [flowers] & 
leaves on the same branch. I carried the 
"red flag" into the fernery & green house of  a
        