130 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
plant. I have sent him, repeatedly, packages of plants for ex- 
amination, but he never answered me a word respecting them— 
Do let me hear from you soon, & Believe me to be 
Your obed. servt 
JOHN TORREY 
P.S. I shall dispatch for you to Mr. Ritter’s care, Phil. in a 
week, or ten days—Mr. Le Conte is in this city but attends little 
to Botany as the duties of his office occupy all his time. 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
SALEM October 22d 1820 
Dear Sir 
Your highly esteemed letter of July 29th reached me in due 
time & gave me the most sensible pleasure. I should undoubtedly 
have answered it on the spot, had I not wished to accompany it 
directly with a box containing some of those plants &c. which you 
desired from me, which I found no leisure to get together before 
this. I now however have the pleasure to inform you that I have 
made up a box for you, which is to proceed on to Philadelphia in 
a week or two, the contents of which I shall beg leave to specify 
below. Your kind offers of providing me with what I still want in 
my collection are exceedingly acceptable; especially as you can 
perhaps procure for me northern plants from other Botanists, even 
should they not grow in your vicinity. With a view to point out 
such I beg leave to inclose a list of such as I had some time since 
made out—which however contains numbers of those that are in- 
cluded in your Catalogue [86]. I need not add that it will be a 
great pleasure to me to serve you & your friends with everything 
I can command. 
Your request as to specific characters of the new fungi sent 
me by you I shall gladly comply with, but must beg your indul- 
gence in that respect & with regard to further communications of 
fungi till towards Spring as it will take me nearly all the winter 
to arrange & describe what I have on hand. 
I have since the receipt of your letter had the good fortune 
to find both the Phallus coccineus (as I take it to be—tho’ not 
possessed of Sowerby’s Fungi [82]—a Phallus beyond all doubt— 
I have made a drawing of it) & the P. impudicus (non indusiat.). 
