(seq. 20)

Walters specific term quadrivalis for the other species
is certainly erroneous.

I said my Utricularia was from 4 to 6 flowered, I will
lend you a specimen 9 flowered.

There must indeed be a wide
difference between the plants of your adjacent county
& that in which I live. This suggestion presents it
self strongly when I see among the desiderat. Walt.
such plants as Obolaria, Gratiola acuminata, Ranunc [Ranunculus]
abortivus &c & from your mention of Chironia chlo-
roides lately. I can send you bulbs of Lilium Carol. [carolina]
Vol. 1 & 2 —

I wish very much to send you some
collections of specimens but how I can't divine.
No boats pass the canal now. I will not have
an oppy. before October — Salix, Plumera [Plumeria], & Ilex
I can send in a growing state also Hydrol. [Hydrocotyle] I suspect.

I should have been much pleased had
you tested my explanation of the flycatching pro
=cep of the Sarracenia. In June the experi-
ment succeeds best. This season was so dry
that the tubes contained no water & the sweet exudation
or secretion was so insipated as to form a white
pellicle which was nearly insipid — I was chagrined
on altering the experiment last June — but on
examing the leaves in difft situations I found most
of them dry with few insects or none.