224 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
& thus, perhaps, all the new or rare ones be represented upon six or 
seven plates. If you could have a few drawn at Bethlehem, upon 
an 8vo-size, Mr. Halsey will endeavour to do some of the rest— 
but he has too little leisure to draw the whole. One of Dewey’s 
n. sp. in the last no. of Sill. [19] is the one we have called C. longi- 
rostris—I forget his name, but you will easily recognize it. You 
will oblige the Society by writing either to Dr. DeKay or to Mr. 
Halsey on the subject, for they wish to commence the printing 
immediately. You may send a few corrections of the Mss. (if 
any are necessary) at once. 
I have just looked over the narrative [41] of Maj. Long’s 
second expedition.—It is tolerable—though there is quite too: 
much of it. But they determined, before they set out, to write 
two volumes! This J know—for I was to have accompanied the 
expedition. ' i 
You have made the most of the lean herbarium they collected. 
Indeed I think the appendix [69] is the most valuable part of the 
book—Are there any duplicates of the new species? 
I am in great want of the following plants. 
Potentilla hirsuta 
supina 
Ascyrum stans 
Caltha parnassifolia 
dentata 
flabellifolia 
Scutellaria incana Muhl. 
Zapania lanceolata 
Scrophularia hirsuta Muhl. 
?Herpestis cuneifolia 
Draba arabisans 
Dentaria heterophylla 
maxima 
Polygala fastigiata Nutt. 
brevifol[ia] 
Glycine umbellata 
Aeschynomene hispida 
Hedysarum laevigatum Nutt. 
Astragalus carolinianus 
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. 
Mikania pubescens 
Kuhnia eupatorioides 
Critonia 
Cineraria heterophylla 
Orchis integra Nutt. 
Any of these which you can furnish me with would be highly 
acceptable. ` I intend soon, however, to make out a complete list 
of my desiderata & shall furnish you with a copy of it. I am 
particularly deficient in Southern Syngenesia. 
At this moment I am very much engaged with our semi- 
