
          No 15. This Dodecatheon does not agree with the description
of the D. Meadia or of the D. integrifolium. The flowers
are always white ; indeed I have never seen one of another colour.
It is always called "The Pride of Ohio," here. If it only varies
from the description of the inegrifolium in the color it
should be mentioned accordingly. If it is a distant species, please
name it Ohioensis.

No 16. You will see a very great difference between this
specimen and the loose ones; yet I have heard both called I.
virginica. The flower attached to the paper is not described in
any work that I have seen. The loose ones I have always considered
the Virginica. The following are some of the particular
sidered the Virginica. The following are some of the particular
in which the difference is very marked. The Virginica flowers in May;
the other in July, and even in September. The Virginica has joints 6 or
8 inches long; the other has them more numerous, and from a half to 4 inches
long. In the V. the leaves are 12 to 15 inhes long, but not more than 1 inch
wide, smooth and elongated; the other has leaves 2 inches wide and
not more than 8 inches long, and pubescent. The V. has numerous
pedicels at each joint, at each of which several flowers are open at
once; in the other the pedicels are fewer, and one flower only appears
at one time, at each joint. The Virg. is described as 1 foot high, yet
I have seen them from 2 to 3 feet; the other grows 5 feet high.
There is a singular local distinction here. The Virginica grows
on the East side of one river, the Miami, and the other on
the West side, both very abundantly, but I have never seen
either of them on the opposite sides of the stream, except
when transplanted into a garden. If this should be an
unnamed species, please name it Ohioensis also.

I should be pleased, if, at [?] time, you would
take the trouble to give me any information with regard to these
plants, which I have been unable to name; and if any thing
I have suggested shall prove worth consideration, I shall feel 
gratified in having been of the slightest service to you.

John W. Van Cleve
Doct John Torrey
        