
          get will be most accepted.


 I have talked with Waters 
 about his list of plants west
 of the Mississippi. I will 
 pay $100 towards it. [added: (Eaton? will $50)] to get it 
 out. it is a work that I 
 have long thought ought to 
 be done. The late Horace Mann 
 [proved?]a plan to do it. If 
 that is done, it will save 
 the trouble and obviate the 
 necessity of printing the 
 references in our manuals, 
 and other works on Western 
 Botany. But I hear that 
 Mr. Watson is rather inclined
 to make such of a book of 
 reference more extensive, &
        