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botanizing, yet I think we shall be in the best time 

 for Composite. Mr. Sullivant will turn his attention 

 primarily to the Musci ; but we shall let nothing 

 escape. Thus at last I may hope to be somewhat use- 

 ful to you as a correspondent for your Garden. 



I learn within a few days that Ross's expedition has 

 been heard of from Rio. Doubtless Joseph will have 

 reached home before this letter arrives, and I may 

 congratulate him and yourself upon his most 

 gratifying success, which has laid a broad and sure 

 foundation for his scientific eminence. His Flora 

 Antarctica must be of the very highest interest and 

 importance. 



TO JOHN TORREY. 

 ASHEVILLE, Saturday, September 30th, 1843. 



MY DEAR FRIEND, Your two letters which 

 awaited my arrival the one at Jefferson, the other at 

 Asheville were indeed refreshing. Our long jour- 

 ney through Virginia brought us behind our estimated 

 time, and hurried the later and more interesting part 

 of our operations ; for Sullivant was getting very im- 

 patient, as I wrote in my last, just as we were hurry- 

 ing away from Jefferson. 



I doubt if I got anything of much interest in 

 Virginia, except Buckley's (and NuttalTs) Andro- 

 meda, Rhamnus parvifolius on the waters of Green- 

 brier, (where did Pursh get it ?), Heuchera pubes- 

 cens in fruit and Heuchera hispida Pursh ! ! out of 

 flower and fruit, so that I detected it by the leaves 

 only (and got good roots), not far from where Pursh 

 discovered it, but more west, on the frontiers of a 

 range of mountains where this very local species 

 doubtless abounds. 



