xT. 32.) TO JOHN TORREY. 307 
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 | 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 ma 
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 pear Frienp,— 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 Jopsied the ficken 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 Nuttall’s) 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. 
