
          the stem is quadrangular and not round as the
engraver has given it. How did you like the satinity.
You must have been pleased with its [added: elegance]. This however was
drawn up by Dr Tully and criticised and polished by the professors
before publication, or as Dr Miner told me they all
of them had a finger in the pye [pie]. In saying this I do
not wish to detract from the merits of Leavenworth. He
frankly told me Tully satinized the description.
In the description the Hab [habitat] is dexterously managed
by way of note. This reads much better than Hab [habitat]
Paint Mountain. This would have been too uncouth.

How do you like the Catalogue of N [New] Haven plants?
I have found it very convenient towards completing a
Catalogue of the plants of this place. I have already
20 that are not in the list. There are several
marked in that catalogue about which there must
certainly be some mistake [crossed out: illegible]

I found last fall the agaricus cretaceus growing
with agaricus campestris. Has this been found before?
in this country? Have [added: not] seen it noticed any where!

I found a very curious Botrychium, different
to any thing I had before seen, purpose to cultivate
it before I venture to decide, but unfortunately
did not gather specimens, intending to take up the
roots and was not able to revisit it at that
time, I marked the place of growth. It is nearly
allied to B. fumarioides [Botrychium fumarioides], the leaves much more
divided than any I have seen.

Botrychium fumarioides grows near it.

I want to procure all the American specimens of
Actea [Actaea] & Cimicifuga. Can you furnish me with any
specimens of the Southern species?

Dr. Tully has named to me the places of growth of the 
following plants

Valeriana officinalis or sylvatica of Richardson
Fair Haven, Vermont
Cypripedium arietinum Do. [ditto]
Tussilago palmata Do. [ditto] They all grow in
a sphanous* swamp at Fair Haven Vt. [Vermont]

*This is Tullys orthography not mine
        