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doubt but that the next parcel you have the goodness to promise 

 me will make up that loss. 



&quot; I feel very sorry for the disorders you have experienced and 

 regret that, conjointly with some business, they have prevented you 

 to arrange your herbarium and favor us with another essay on the 

 plants of New England, but trust that God will grant you health 

 and leisure to accomplish both, and hope that you will at least favor 

 me with the catalogue and descriptions promised; they will be 

 gratefully acknowledged and mentioned when I shall publish my 

 travels and essays on the Nat l Hist, of the Plants of the U. S., and 

 expect soon to receive the plants you mention to prepare, one of 

 which you say is a new genus, and if it be correct I am willing to 

 name it Cutlera, and alter the other plant named so. I trust you will 

 renew occasionally, or at least once every year, sending me a large 

 parcel of plants ; you know already most of those I want, but to refresh 

 your memory you will find hereunder the names of the principals, 

 as well as the names of the plants lost in the passage, which I don t 

 doubt you will have the goodness to collect for me this season. My 

 friends, Messrs Dawes, Ingersoll, etc., of Boston, who propose 

 returning to Sicily this year, will by my desire acquaint you with 

 the time of their departure. Any Captain coming from Salem to 

 Palermo, and they are many in the course of the year, will also 

 willingly take charge of such things for me, and in default you may 

 address any package or letter to my friends here-under mentioned 

 in several ports of the Mediterranean. 



&quot; In return of your kindness, and according to your desire, I 

 now send you a parcel of Sicily plants, to which I join a few 

 specimens of n. sp. of American plants, such as I can conveniently 

 spare. Here-under you have the particulars of same. I hope they 

 will prove acceptable. Among the Sicilian plants there are many 

 new sp. I have discovered. I am sorry to say I have no curious 

 seed to join to them at present. I inclose three copper plates of 

 as many new American criptogamic Genera Carpanthus, Volvaria, 



