
          I was surprized [surprised] to  find [added: (this year at Middeltown)] abundance of a very singular
 fern like Osmunda, spectabilis but the fruit is not terminal
 like it, but interrupted and mostly on the margins of the [perinules?]
 & simila [similar] to Lygodium scandens. It is a curious thing have you
 seen it in this State? I noticed it this season for the first time here
 growing in 2 meadows in abundance, and I secured about
 50 specimens (very fine). [If we?] found the same thing in
 the highlands of New York. Shall you require this for your
 State collection if so let me know you shall have it and
 the Lycopodium monostachyon also if wanted and rare as I suppose
 I was most happy to have an opportunity to settle my  
 orchidea after Hooker Flora, with other things.
 I feel greatly concerned for Buckleys safety he some 2 months
 ago started for the Mts [Mountains] of Carolina & Tenn [Tennessee] and promised to write
 me on the way, but nothing has come to hand, my fears increase
 daily lest he should [added: have] been taken down with fever.
 If you have hears in the meantime [added: from him] you will do me an especial
 favor for letting me know as early as possible. My only hope for
 this long delay is that he may have had his timeso fully occupied
 with his collections he could not spare time for letter writing
 and in this respect is he much like myself.


 Did I ever shew [show] you the specimens I collected in the Highlands
 of New York of a Trillium, that is not as far as I know of
  described. It is evidently related to T. pictum [Trillium pictum], and has
 [crossed out: illegible] narrow petals. I have named this T. pictum [Trillium pictum] var [variant] [added: β]  ligulatum 
 Have you met with this I found it growing near the Iron
 Mines of Phillips, in company with Streptopus roseus &c
 This Trillium is very different from what I have seen
 elsewhere. I will make a drawingof it as I have no
 duplicate or will lend you [added: the] specimen provided you
 with to see it. May I ask you to secure me the
 first specimen of Cypripedium arietinum that comes
 in your way I greatly wish for this plant on purpose to shew [show]
 it to my pupils to direct their attention to it. I expect to
 [illegible] it in Vermont with other rare plants
        