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Viola clandestina. I have found past flowering in great quantities 
about the coal mine, Lehigh—but I confess that since I have 
studied the V. blanda in nature here at Bethl[ehem] I begin to 
believe that they are not distinct, especially since I have had 
an Opportunity to recur to my deceased friend Steinhauer’s 
drawing and find I am mistaken as to his having represented 
the chocolate-colored petals. I think it is a very happy 
thought of yours to refer the expression of Pursh to the fruit. 
V. eriocarpa Swz. Since I am in the habit of finding V. pubescens 
with and without woolly capsules here (it was not met with 
at Salem), I am more determined in my opinion that my 
eriocarpa is a different species. 
Asclepias nivea—found by me in the Alleghany mts.—is the only 
species which I have from the northern states not in your 
Flora, in the present number. 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
NEw York, May 20th 1824. 
` My dear Sir, l 
Surely I am the most unfortunate man in the, world when I 
have for years anxiously desired to behold your face & yet was a 
few weeks since within a few yards of you or perhaps even passed 
you without my knowledge. On this day last month I became a 
benedict & on the 27th I was in Philadelphia with my wife, where 
we remained four days. It was with the deepest regret & mortifi- 
cation that I learned from Mr. Collins, the evening before our 
departure, that you had been in Philadelphia nearly all the time 
that we were there, & that you had only left town but a few hours 
before. What a disappointment! I don’t know a person I 
am more anxious to see than yourself & to find I have lost an op- 
portunity of gratifying myself which may be the last for a long 
time yet, made me quite melancholy. You will now be prepared, 
I trust, to make abundant allowances for the manner in which I 
have treated you for some time past; for some preparation, you 
a know, is necessary, before one can make so great a change in his 
situation. There are now before me two of your letters, the 
latest of which I received at least six weeks ago. I am now clear- 
ing off a mass of business which has accumulated on me during the 
