
          Solaneae, Compositae, Cyperaceae, Asclepiadeae, and Gramineae (the last 
you have already got); also this supply of no. 1 to 935 which came to 
this country after Wight made his first distribution. So that I trust 
you shall have ere many weeks past, not only your pet Cyperaceae but 
at least a couple of hundred species of other things: the collection I have 
sent to you, although nominally fourth on the list, is the largest in 
point of numbers, so that I trust your herbarium will be the richest 
in the Un. States in Indian plants. I wish I were as rich in the plants 
of the Rocky Mountains and western parts of the United States Georgia, &c, 
as you shall be in those of the Peninsula. Can you nowhere get for 
me the Dionaea muscipula. I wish it much, also the Hoeckia in fruit; 
I should ever like a few specimens of that last plant to give away, and if

pd. [paid] 2 7½

Dr. John Torrey 
Professor of Chemistry &c 
New York

they were a little less pressed than those I have as yet got from you, so 
much the better. A much pressed specimen looks beautiful: but I would 
as soon have a drawing: I care less for the beauty than for the use 
to which I can put the specimen; and [added: in] all I have yet if that plant the 
flowers are so crushed flat as to be transparent, and the original form cannot 
be made out by stewing in hot water.

I heard of Dr Wight the other day: he had been botanizing at a place 
called Courtallum [added: (N. Lat. 9 E.Long.77.26') where in one excursion he collected about 5000 specimens 
after neglecting everything he could get elsewhere. He says it ought be to be called 
the "Botanic garden" of the Peninsula: he is so delighted that he has sent 
off three of his native collectors to the spot. On account of his trip, with I believe 
his portrait will soon be given in the "Companion to the Botanical magazine," 
a work which I hope you get. But I must conclude.  Yours truly G Walker Arnott

[sideways] 
Although I have said that I am to send a 
register of all I distribute to Dr Wight yet it is 
[partly?] out of curiosity. For when he left this country 
he gave me the whole of the plants to do with them 
what I chose, but I wish to ascertain in this [way?] 
about how many specimens there are in all. In the 
collections I made up in sutumn and just now together 
[crossed out: th?] I have employed about 7000 labels.

        