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- the hands of the Easton Stage driver, & I hope you will receive 
it safely in a day or two after. 
I remain my dear Sir, most sincerely 
Your much obliged friend 
Joun Torrey— 
THE Rev”. 
L. D. SCHWEINITz 
Bethlehem 
Pennsylvania , 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
i i NEw York, Feby 27th, 1824. 
My Dear Sir i 
A few days since I wrote you a letter in which I promised to 
dispatch in a short time a package of plants for you. As usual, | 
have been several days after the time, but the little I have been 
able to get together is sent according to your direction, by the 
Easton stage. They are, indeed, trifles & I had a great mind 
not to send them—but you must take the will for the deed. The 
cryptogamia are numbered according to corresponding specimens 
-which I have retained, as usual. I have, however, mislaid the 
memorandum of my last mission, & therefore I have begun with 
the number 600: Do, My Dear Sir, oblige me so-much as to give 
me your opinion respecting these specimens, & also of those sent 
in a former package, some time since, of which there are some yet 
to hear from. There are a few specimens of cryptogamia, etc., 
from the West Indies, being duplicates of some lately presented 
me by Dr. R. Madiana—I wish you would oblige me with your 
determinations of these. More from the same quarter I shall 
have for you soon. 
To make my little package more acceptable, I have added to it 
the 2nd. No. of my Flora [89] which goes partly through Pen- 
tandria Digynia. A third number is nearly finished, as you will 
see by the last proof-sheet but one, which I transmit as evidence. 
There will probably be about 7 Nos. in all, or about 1100 pages. 
I beg you will give me your candid remarks on this last No. which 
contains three or four typographical errors, independent of others, 
more important. But by all means let me profit by your observa- 
