
          Thus then, glancing hurridly [hurriedly] over DeCandolle [De Candolle], his Cruciferae, I have not 
Stanleya Nutt [Nuttall] ([crossed out: all] [added: any] species), [Streptanthus maculatus Nutt [Nuttall], Dentaria maxima,
Discovium ohiotense. In Leguminosae I am less fortunate, I
have not,_[underlined: Thermopsis] rhombifolia; Babtisia [Baptisia] (I have only B. tinctoria [Baptisia tinctoria])/; Amorpha 
glabra, nana [Amorpha nana], herbacea [Amorpha herbacea], canescens [Amorpha canescens].;[underlined: Petalostemon]/ (I have only P. corymbosum [Petalostemon corymbosum]).
Dalea laxiflora, aurea [Dalea aurea], pedunculata [Dalea pedunculata]; Tephrosia gracilis, paucifolia [Tephrosia pauciflora], prostrata [Tephrosia prostrata];
[underlined:Sesbania] disperma P. [Pursh];[underlined: Clitoria] mariana; [underlined:Galactia] mollis, filosa [Galactia filosa], glabella Galactia glabella?], Galactia Elleioti [Galactia elliottii];
[underlined:Astragalus] racemosus, carolinianus [Astragalus carolinianus], canadensis [Astragalus canadensis], [glulen?] [Astragalus glulen?] , gracilis Nutt [Astragalus gracilis Nuttall], micranthus Nutt [Astragalus micranthus Nuttall],
galegoides Nutt [Astragalus galegoides Nuttall];[underlined: Hedysarum] canescens, marylandicum [Hedysarum marylandicum], obtusum [Hedysarum obtusum], ciliare [Hedysarum ciliare], [histensis?] Pr [Hedysarum histensis? Pursh]
laevigaten, bracteosum, cuspidatum, glabellum Mx., pauciflorum, rigidum,
rhombifolium, liveatum rotundifolium, pedunculatum Mill, grandiflorum [Walt?],
repens Lin, [lumifusum?] Muhl, [crossed out: ?]. Lespedeza sessiliflora
Nutt (an L. divergens Bigel.,  I mean the broad leaved L. sessiliflora), Stuvei,
longifolia D.C, capitata Mx. augustifolia [added Ell.], violacea Pers (with which perhaps
L. divergens Ph. [Pursh] is identical), violacea Elliott (not Pers, nor other [crossed out: ?] authors),
sessiliflora Ell. (not Nutt. nor Bigel.), prostrata. Psoralea (all species),
Gymnocladus canadensis.

But this list, is got up hurridly and does not contain all I am
deficient in in these two orders: still it will show to you the
nature of my desiderata. I suspect much, my chief wants
are from the Southern districts_ and from the Rocky Mountains [added: and Arkansas].

Time however will do much I hope to me, and enable
me [underlined: peu à peu] to fill up these and many others.

On the occasion of a 7th edition being published of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, I was employed to write the article "Botany".
of which I got a very few separate copies. One of these I [added: shall] send you
to Dr. Hookers care_ I shall also send one for the Lyceum of Nat. Histy [Natural History]
and one for Mr. Greene of Boston which you may perhaps forward.
In it you will find that I do not much approve of Mr. Lindleys [Lindley's]
system, any more than I do of the orderial characters, which are frequently
either through carelessness of the printer, or author, exceedingly false, and
sometimes downright nonsense, or contradictory the one line to another.

On looking over a catalogue of North Am. [American] plants arranged by
Mr Lindleys [Lindley's] book which you sent me, and which I have just got, there
are a few genera of which I know nothing- What is Erigenia Nutt
Cynosciadium [added: archemora] repocarpus, Cymopterus, Eulophus, Atrema, Enemion, [Macrotrys?],
Stylephorum, [added: Streplantlis] Aphragmus [added: Stanleya, [Discobrum?]] Cleomella, Peritoma, Schizandra, Malocadendron, Stewartia,
Gordonia, Leptarhena, Astilbe, Lepuropetalum, Decumaria, Bartonia, Cereocarpus
        