D TEA 
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county, has this year been found in quantities by the young stu- 
dents at Nazareth. Specimens are at your command. It is ñot 
a Seymeria—as Nuttall supposes. Apropos, the Seymeria macro- 
phylla I found rarely on the Muskingum river during my Journey. 
The receipt of Prof. Dewey’s Carices [19] gave me inexpressible 
pleasure & has been of great use to me in my present work. I most 
eagerly expect the package you promise. Please to let me hear 
from you as soon as convenient & believe me, with great gratitude 
for your valuable alae Your humble servt & sincere friend 
L D v ScHWEINITZ 
P.S. How is it, that Elliott’s numbers [22] do not appear? He 
wrote me that three would be forthcoming in May. 
Would not a comparison of the Asters & Solidagines in my 
collection, with yours, be a good assistance when you come to that 
part of the business in the Flora [89]—You are welcome to consult 
my stores—as we are not so far distant from one another as to 
prevent my sending my whole collection to you & I think aid 
more useful than such comparisons. 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETH. Sept. 21st 1823 
My dear Sir 
I take the liberty to enclose [*] you this day my very unimpor- 
tant remarks upon your excellent Flora [89]—do me the favor to 
let me know your sentiment upon them. 
I have almost completed my Monography of the Carices [71], of 
which I intend to make a Copy as soon as possible—in as good writ- 
ing as my unlucky hand permits, to present to you in manuscript. 
But I wish to make an enquiry concerning the Journal of the 
Lyceum—my head almost runs crazy with the astonishing effects 
of a perfectly new (at least to me) analytical method of distinguish- 
ing the plants of a numerous genus, by analytical tables, which if 
well executed, cannot fail of determining the species. The idea 
was I believe first operated upon by De Candolle & Lamarck— 
& I have just received a Flora of Northern Germany by one of 
my most intimate friends there, Mr. Peter Ciirie [r7]— in which 
that plan is pursued thro out—I instantly applied it to our Carices, 
* [The enclosure is printed at the end of this letter.] 
