140 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
The box for you which I shall probably put on board a Peters- 
burg vessel tomorrow, contains nothing but Cryptogamia. There 
are 200 species of all orders. Very few are named altho’ I think I 
have determined a good part of them. Mr. Eaton [20], who is 
writing a little work on Botany, took away into the country, 6 
months ago, all my books on Cryptogamia, so that I have not 
studied scarcely any of the specimens I now send you from books. 
Some of them I think are new, & many have probably been sent 
before. 
Very respectfully, I remain Yours &c. 
JOHN TORREY 
P.S. Please to send your opinion of the names of the Cryptogamia 
as soon after you receive them as convenient. I hope to receive 
the box which you mentioned in your last letter you was preparing 
for me. If it has not yet been sent off please to hurry it a little— 
I am very anxious to see it. Mr. Halsey sent you a package a 
few weeks since. 
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SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
SALEM April 19th 1821 
Dr Jonn Torrey New York 
Dear Sir 
At length I am able to forward to you a box containing the 
greater part of the Cryptogamical plants of every division which 
I had on hand—having been prevented from doing so sooner first 
by the uncommon season & then by a wish to enclose you a copy 
of my Specimen of Fl. Cryptog. cont. the Hepatic mosses ['74|—of 
which however the printing progresses so slowly that I can no 
longer wait, as a good opportunity offers for sending the box. 
You may however depend on receiving a copy as soon as it is 
finished, & I should be glad if you could dispose of some for me, as 
I wish not to lose too much on the little work. This delay has 
however afforded me the extreme pleasure of receiving in the mean 
time your invaluable letter of the 22d of March, which I can now 
answer. But first I beg leave to say a few words concerning the 
plants I this day send to Petersburg for you, a complete list where- 
of the inclosed sheet contains. 
I am extremely sorry that my collection did not afford more 
