
          Rec'd July 31
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Columbus Ohion July 41

My dear sir

It has been a long while since
a letter has passed direct between us. I consider however
our correspondence as having been virtually kept
up through that with Dr. G who has taken his turn
by way of offset to what you done during his
absence in Europe.

Inclosed in some entirely ripe & perfect fruit of the
new umbelliferous plant (Neurophyllum No. 2)! - which
I have processed at last with no little trouble - the
meat is extremely scarce. It had disappeared from its
old locality. The trouble of it has not ended here 
with me. Its pursuit in the books has been
more successful that in the field. The 
difficulty is, it has no very striking characters.
Its resemblances pointing in various directions.
It may be orthospermous & belong to tribe
Ammineae, near Bunium, [diagram?] Conopodium. Would be
a latter associate of Zizia integemma than its present
one etc. But the best disposition (as I think) of it
is to consider it Campylospermum under tribe
Smyrneae near if not belonging to Nuttall's [Eulophas?]

From description Eu americanus must look much
like our plant. The calyx teeth & sheaths of the [?]
leaves do not answer however. I have now sent
you all the materials & feel much curiosity to
see what you will do with it. The root [?]
of 2 to 4+ [farcicalate?] oblong tubers no unlike those

        