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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 155 
about which I was so concerned have been safely received at last. 
The part of the package Marked No 5 & consisting of Phaenoga- 
mous plants of the Northern States I have ascertained was by 
inadvertence left behind. It is safe, however, & shall be forwarded 
by the Easton Stage in a very few days. I shall add to ita 
small parcel from Mr. Halsey which has been lying in my office 
several months—also Sprengel’s Neue Entdeck. [84] & [the] 
Jahrbücher der Gewachskunde [40]. If Mr. Halsey has finished 
using Fries’ Syst. mycologicum [23] I [shall] put it in the package 
for you, hoping it will be returned in about two months. Of 
Sprengel’s book I have another copy, & beg you will keep the one 
I send you. I enclose in this letter a specimen of the Tayloria 
splachnoides of Hooker, which I received from Sprengel. It 
is a very singular moss, & an excellent description is given of it in 
Brande’s Journal of the Royal Institution [62], with a much 
better figure than either Schwagrichen’s [66], or that in Bridel’s 
Supplement [12]. It appears to me also that there is very good 
reason for changing Schleicher’s name, as Smith had previously 
applied the name of Hookeria to the Hypnum lucens.  (Pteri- 
gophyllum of Bridel). It is surprizing that I should have com- 
mitted such a mistake respecting the Xyloma acerinum. I was 
prepossessed with the idea of its being something uncommon, & was 
determined to make it so. 
With what impatience do I wait to hear from the last package 
of Cryptogamia I sent you! How long will it be before you will 
have leisure to examine them? You must not get out of patience 
with me for giving you so much trouble, & all I hope is, that some 
of the specimens may supply desiderata in your collection. The 
two copies of your Hepaticae [74] I received safely, in good time. 
Shall I beg the favour of two more if you have them to spare, & let 
me know the price of them that I may remit the money. I want 
them for my correspondents in Europe. The Cheilanthes col- 
lected by Nuttall must be C. vestita. I had never seen any species 
of the genus before this. 
On looking over my file of letters, I observe your favour 
of the 29th of October last has never been answered. I must beg 
pardon for this carelessness & say in palliation, that I delayed 
writing to you until I should hear that you had arrived at Beth- 
