
          I shall not have time to make extracts being determined
 to send this long delayed letter by next mail.


 I have your letter of September 4th. If your Book has not
 been received and a hasty line with it, before 
 that time I should have been very sorry 
 for the delay I might have caused, but lest
 by my  misstep it may still be delayed at New York
 I sent this letter at once.


 Very Truly Yours
 Joseph Barratt


 Dr. Torrey


 You never replied to that part of my letter which
 related to the purple Eupatorium after you 
 recieved [received] my specimen of the same. I wish 
 to know what use if any was made in your 
 Flora. I have by me a paper I meant to print
 with my full descriptions, and Synonyms.
 When I visit you I shall shew you the Notes and 
 corrections in your Flora which I feel satisfied 
 ought to be cancelled. The materials in your
 Herbarium were not sufficient to draw up full
 characters of the species especially my E. fistulosum [Eupatorium fistulosum]
 which is a noble plant

        