
          Can [crossed out: illegible] you to furnish me  [added:  immediately] with good specimens of the little plantago which I
found in the vicinity of Augusta in May 1812, as according to the n [new?] arrangement, it is
necessary for me to describe it before it can be inserted [crossed out: in [my?] [?] work] My sp. [specimen] of this
plant, as well as many others, the result of my
travels in west Georgia were [crossed out: burnd?] burned by the British in the mouth of the Del. [Delaware].
There was also a syngenesious plant, supposed by me as that [time?] [to?] Doronicum
found a little [crossed out: illegible] way out of Augusta, in the woods on the right hand
side of the road as you leave. I sit down this evening to fulfill my the [only?]
[crossed out: illegible] for [?]. The flowers were yellow. Pray have you seen such a plant?

Savannah, Octr [October] 19th, 1816

My dear Sir,

I sit down this evening to fulfill my
promise, and to have a little paper conversation with 
you. As you are the only person I thought fit to entrust 
with the impressions, which the first number of Mr. Elliott's
work made upon my mind, it is with the purest
pleasure, I can now inform you, that the difficulty between
Mr. E. and myself is at an end, and I shall continue [crossed out: illegible] [added: to]
[cross out: illegible] [added: aid] him [crossed out: with my new plants] [added: as heretofore], in order that the plants of the
two Southern States, may be, as far as possible, in [crossed out: illegible] [added: a]
single work. Foliis planis angustosis [angustis], pannula sparsa patula, spiculis
sub-sessilibus paucis, [crossed out: illegible] cal. [calycibus] triglumis [trivalvibus], flor. [floribus] monandris. [R?] I will
now just take the liberty to observe respecting your observations of C. [?] that I
cannot see how it is possible for a [leaf?] to be ovale [?] and at  the
same time oval and [?] at [end?].
This sp. [species] in its habit approaches the nearest to [crossed out: panicula] [added: latifolia],  from which, however it is
readily distinguished by its leaves, its thin spreading panicle, its smaller and fewer
flowered spikes. [crossed out: Found] [added: Grows] at Crooked-river bridge, Cambden [Camden] County, Georgia.
eleven miles from St. Mary's. Height from 2-3 feet and upwards. Any additional 
observations that may [know?] further to illustrate this plant, you will be
are full liberty to make, should they [occur] to you. The sp: [species] name I have selected
[crossed out: illegible] may not be the best. Restricting its definition to the peculiar
[?] which[crossed out: illegible] [added: my wont?] inhibits, [crossed out: when probably? while ?] in its [living?]
state, it may do. I have thought proper, [crossed out: to write?] at all counts, to [release?]
[crossed out: illegible] [added: it], particularly as LeConte has [crossed out: sent] sent it thus diminished to E.
The pines on the [added: outer?] flower of the [crossed out: calyx?] [added: corolla?] and [added: on] the branches are the same. In the
former, the [crossed out: illegible] [added: supra?] valve of the corolla is more [crossed out: illegible] rounded. [Spines?] at the base
of the spikes, root fibrous. The leaves very [added: much] in[form, [crossed out: some of them] being oval, ovate, and sometimes
trilobate. The [diviness?] of [crossed out: the ? ] [added: the] in values also very in form and numbers
[crossed out: illegible] as   [? , ? illegible-?];...the base of our is more of the sivi[?]
{?] [crossed out illegible] [added: illegible] furnished with one or [crossed out: illegible][added: [?].  I hope you will [?] in a [?] or in some
way or other inform the public of our new arrangement, in your second number as an apology
for my not havin [?] my own plants in the first.  You must be fully [?], that 
your previous apologies although  [?] offend me no [?] for the [?]
[?] I think I have greatly complained.without however ascribing any improper [?]
to you! I [?] what immediately under the raceme. How ere dispond in a [?]
[?] raceme. found near oak maybe river Georgia [?]
[?] as the above [?] though short is suffucient to distinguish this from my
other known specimens. I wish it to be published but hope in the spring
to obtain through Dr. B. who was with me when I found this plant. [?]
        