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early in September. If you meet with Panicum 

 agrostoides, Poa obtusa Muhl., and Poa eragrostis, I 

 shall be much obliged if you will secure for me the 

 needful quantity of specimens. I am making arrange- 

 ments for securing the bulbs, tubers, and seeds of the 

 rarer plants for Lehmann. I shall take great pleasure 

 in complying with your desire of securing as many as 

 possible for your little garden. Bulbs and tubers I 

 take up after flowering, and place in dry sand. Can 

 you give some instructions as to the best manner of 

 preserving other perennial roots, such as Asters, etc. ? 

 If you wiU. give me the necessary instructions, I 

 promise jou to spare no exertions to carry them into 

 effect. 



I have nearly finished De CandoUe's " Theorie Ele- 

 mentaire." I have devoured it like a novel. It ought 

 to be translated, that it may be more generally read 

 in this country, where something of the kind is much 

 needed. By the way, as soon as you receive Lindley's 

 new elementary work, I hope you will set about pre- 

 paring an American edition. 



This immediate neighborhood is very poor for bota- 

 nizing. Excepting Cyperacese, it furnishes nothing 

 of interest. I shall soon, however, make more distant 

 excursions, so as to include Oneida Lake and the 

 " pine plains." When I return I shall bring with 

 me a huge bundle of plants, which will show that I 

 have not been idle. 



TO HIS FATHER. 



November 21, 1834. 



The class at the Medical College is very small, so 

 that I have no salary here at present. But I have a 

 comfortable and pleasant home, and fine opportunities 



