Engelmann, George Jan. 18, 1843 [2] (seq. 75)

summer or fall; and payment to be made one delivery giving the order for
the plants. What
do you say to that plan? If you approve of it, and think it
feasible, you will do me a favor to publish and advertisement
in Sillimans Journal to that effect; and botanists who
wish to obtain a collection may apply to you or to me;
it would be well to say in the Journal also a few words referring
to the advertisement and to publish the same also in England.
— I will take care to put it in French and German journals.
In that way we would encourage adventurous and ardent
botanists, would get a better knowledge of distant and
little known countries, and obtain full suits of good
specimens therefrom. If such under takings find favour,
they might be extended to the mountains and Oregon
where Nuttall & Douglas may have done much but certainly
not all. Tell me your opinion about it. The price
might be put at two £ Sterling less than a [dollar?] it could
not well be, for 100 plants. —

I was determined to have called a beautiful and interesting new genus
by my friend Lindheimers name, and I believe I have found one
now amongst those collected by him last fall. It is rather an
anomalous thing, but though it is monopetalous, I can not
but most class it near Illecebraceae it is hardly in any way
different from the South American Guilleminea except by the
monopetalalous corolla! and impossible, I think to divide it from it,
and take it from this family Solaenacanthus. You find a specimen — and
seeds in the parcels sent now by me. The later description of this
and another new genus you find on another page and if it meets with
your approval I beg you to send it to Dr Silliman to insert it.
If I am not too late, already, I should not like to loose
the right to name that plant after my friend. —

Besides these the parcel contains a pretty full suit of Missouri
and Texas Vernoniae — only the transition of V. fasciculata
and praealta is not there, but full suits may be obtained
even more readily than between the other. — Some of the
plants are marked: please return; which I wish you to
return when you have examined them, as they are only
specimens; the others you will please to keep if you like.
Perhaps Dr Torrey expects me to write to him about the
Cuscutae of his herbaria; I shall do so and send him
also a full suit of my specimens together with some others.
rare plants. — Our Aster sagittifolius near Drummondii
has probably been mistaken for this Texan plant; you
will be able to examine [Ivers?] specimens, which I send you.