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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 133 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
SALEM January 11th 1821 
` Dr Torrey New York 
Dear Sir 
With a confident hope that the box of plants which I addressed 
to you has by this time arrived (having had news of it as far 
as Philadelphia) & given you some little satisfaction, I beg to 
express to you the extreme delight the receipt of your Package 
of plants shortly after mine were sent off gave me, together with 
those sent on by Mr. Wm. Cooper to whom I shall write a few 
lines today. | 
I should have written to you in answer earlier than this day, 
if I had not thought it would be more agreeable to you to receive 
my list of the delightful quantity of Cryptogamists included— 
- which required time to be examined. I now have the pleasure of 
subjoining that—& have succeeded in determining them all—with 
the exception of a very few that were either too indistinct or which 
I had the misfortune to lose by their dropping into a heap of 
rubbish as I was going to examine them—from which they could 
not be extricated. Altho’ I was extremely gratified by the Phaeno- 
gamous plants you have so kindly sent me, & earnestly beg you 
will be so good as to continue—still I must confess I was still 
more delighted by so fine an assortment of Cryptog. especially of 
Musci. Those arrived in excellent time just as I was commencing a 
thorough examination of my whole collection, & of a good large 
bag of Mosses collected in Canada by my friend Mr. Denke—so 
that I believe I can say they have been pretty well ascertained; it is 
of great importance in the exam. of Musci, that you should have 
as great a number together as possible. The results of my labors 
on the Musci frondosi et Hepatici has been the following. 
I find mention made in Authors of 
Musci frond. 276Species Ameri- Of these I possess 263 from 
can ones including a number America so that I at present 
which I have found, not here- only lack 13. species of 
tofore mentioned as American hitherto described Am[erican] 
& a very few new ones es- Musci frondosi & of these 
tablished by me. there are only 4 species which 
are not in my collect[ion] fr[om] 
Europe. 
