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the extinction of the Mammoth and I am slow to believe that its fate is involved in the present misfortunes of the potato Oct. 9 Your of 13 recieved yesterday. The Inulu that you enquire about is Inulu helenium, Vic. Elecumfrane. I think you may rely upon my Statements in regard to Polypods. P. vulgaris you sent me: our Polypod (so called) being Dicksonia punctilobula pr. both Gray & Bigelow, altho various Synonymes are given by both, as Nephrodium, Sitolobium etc. The plant in your last letter is Linaria vulgaris, Toadflax, ramsted, "fields & roadsides, a showy but pernicious weed: Family Scrophulariaceae. Some weeks ago I recieved an elegant speciman from Mr. Dolins, where is was cultivated with great care ina flower pot, under the name of Butter & Eggs, making a more strong appearance, than, from your specimen, it does its Wild State.

 Your Monograph of the Family Wilsoneae, altho' confessedly incomplete, is thankfully recied, you had, if I mistake not, been notified that Mr. Wilson was to be parson here in place of Mr. Temple, & had expressed your satisfaction with that arrangement; it was therefore thought unnecessary to accurately designate the individual. It may now be stated, however, that the subject of the enquiry was said parson, preacher, or stated supply Wilson. the given name is not at this time known to me

Having been sick since graduation he did not arrive here till this week. The numbers that you desire are on the margin of the third page of this epistle. It took me about ten minutes to find them, by unmixt meditation, making no figures except to write down the numbers as they were found-