
          Next season, I intend, if not prevented by business
 to botanize more extensively & among other things to
 try investigate the locality of Nelumbiums at 
 Hadlyme (Selden's Cove). I fear, from what I
 learn from Col. [Colonel] Selden the owner of the Cove that it 
 has become extinct. Eriophorum alpinum the true
 thing I found at Willington Conn [Connecticut] several years since.
 My duplicates are mislaid in miscellanies, & I
 cannot lay my hand upon them. It grew abundantly
 along the road side!! I neglected to put up Poa obtusa Muhl, 
 which grows here. Also Mimulus alatus 
 & Phaseolus perennis. I send you a few
 aquatic plants. Perhaps one of them is Ceratophyllum.
 Isoetes lacustris is abundant here. The plant was first 
 discovered in Connecticut, I believe, by me. It was abundant
 in the Western part of the State & is so here.
 My specimens were collected late in October when
 the plant is in perfection. I presume it is often
 overlooked as also is Lycopodium apodum which is
 extremely common.

 You [crossed out: ak] inquire if I would like a copy of the
 Geological Report of the State of New York containing
 your Catalogue of Plants? If you please send me
 one I should like it much. Leave it at the
 office of Adams & Co's express 9 Wall Street and it
 will reach me the next day. Direct to me at 
 Norwich Conn. [Connecticut] I reside in Montville 6 miles
 from Norwich, which is my nearest Post office.
 & which is my P.O. address.
        