21 Apr 1859 [1] (seq. 704)

New York, April 21, 1859

My dear friend — The parcel
came safely & I meant to
have written to you at once — but
was prevented. I copied the
fig. of Anthephora for Engelmann.
— He is right about its being distinct
from the genus that includes
Sesleria {dactyloides} — which is near Chon-
-drosum & therefore Chlorideous.

I sent the parcel for Daniel
to his father's office in State St.
On looking at the flowers of your
Hemistones. I find some of the an-
thers 2-celled. Did you not see,
in those I sent you from Gibbs Coll.
that the unopened anthers were decidedly
introrse? I think, too, that Sprague

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Sarcodes under the name of
Pterophorides — about the time that
my article was published. Where
did his description appear? Not
in the Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sc. I
do not find it there & besides that
Journal was commenced some time
after my paper was published —
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A letter came to the office this
morning for Mr. G. which I shall
send up to the house — as I do not
expect to go home till tomorrow. Herb.
& I are just starting for Snedens —
I left Jane pretty bright. She
sat up rather too late last evening — so
that she felt a little tired — but she is
improving daily. I am glad to hear
that Mr. Loring is slowly mending. Give
him my kind regards — Yours ever
John Torrey