
          I think you will be highly gratified with a sight of my Solidagos [added: and Asters]
 as specimen I never saw a set that was put upon my
 mind before. You may perhaps remember giving me one undetermined
 from "Fort King Florida Lieut [Lieutenant] Alden".  This is S. [Solidago] elata Pursh no. 49
 Ell [Elliott] no 38, p [page] 389.  I name this new lest I should forget and it
 may save you a little trouble. I have besides S [Solidago] multiradiata [added: Pursh 47] and
 S [Solidago] humilis [added: Pursh 48, p. 543] from the White Mts. [Mountains] of New Hampshire that I
 collected there some years since but till lately I never ventured to study
 them attentively as I have since done.
 and with much pleasure.


 Yours, JB


 Professor John Torrey MD
 30 McDougal Street
 New York
        