
          Recd [Received] June 1


 Ansd [Answered] Sept 22.


 London, Feby [February] 8, 1835


 My Dear Sir


 I have Your [kind?] Letter of Dec
 30th & the plant which followed it, for both
 of which I beg to send you my best thanks. The
 Southern specs [specimens] were precious, when Browns portrait
 is engraved I will send it to you. Our funds at
 present are low, but the committee who got the
 Principe Botanicorum to sit will make soon some 
 arrangment about it. I found no Desmodium that
 were new to me in yr [your] parcel. D. pauciflorum [Desmodium pauciflorum] I have in
 fine state from Short, & from its wide limits I think
 many have overlooked it. I have it fr. [from] Canada, Pennsyla [Pennsylvania]
 Kentucky & New Orleans. I do long to see the species described
 by Elliott & if you have them pray let me see them. I
 will return any I may not keep. Why should not this
 confidence extend over the Atlantic? It is shown here.
 Do get your Southern friends to attend to this genus. You
 lent Hooker a specn [specimen] near Strictum [Desmodium strictum] in habit which I
 have not. Aster paludosus was most acceptable. A.
 Shortii [Aster Shortii] is very distinct from Sagittifolius [Aster Sagittifolius], & is one of the 
 most interesting of our Asters. I should like to see your
 N. [New] York specimen of it. Short has not sent me a spec [specimen] yet
 for I have only seen those he sent Hooker. Who is to set
 us right about Solidago? Hooker has thrown no light upon
 it, & I cannot catch the spec [specimen] characters. It is all chaos to
 me. I see Nuttal [Nuttall] has added a new one to the [old?] list. Do
 send me Aster Surculosus if you have it to spare. You called
 Nuttals [Nuttall's] A. gracilis [Aster gracilis] by that name in Hookers Herbm [Herbarium]. Any Asters
 will be acceptable, tho' [though] I have a good collection fr [from] Boston
 & from Townsend. I[added: n] making you new work, let me beg 
 you to form a Herbm [Herbarium] corresponding to it with references
 to your book, that our grandchildren may know the 
 plants you describe. Insert Viola palustris. I have it in

        