
          [left side of page]
 leaving the seeds suspended from the summit
 of the cell seeds 2-4 generaly [generally]  3. July 5, 1841
 [added: flowers April -June] These observations were made at that time
 & may be depended on as correct. Then I also
 gathered a good many seeds but unfortunately
 the mice came where I had left them to dry
 & eat [ate] them. I will send you some roots
 this fall. Its leaves continue green till
 December. It is by no means a rare plant
 in this neighborhood being much more abundant
 this year than last. Generaly [generally] found in oak
 woods & rich soil.


 I sent you a plant last year which you
 said was a new species of Melananthera
 On comparing it with the Melananthera hastata
 it does not seem to belong to the same genus.
 Both plants grow in this county & certainly
 they have little resemblance in their inflorescences.
 In your letter of March last you say that
 some additional numbers of the Flora will 
 be published in May & that you will send
 them to me by mail. I have not recd [received]
 them and am very anxious to have them before
 leaving this place next December. I intend
 to spend the winter at the South & next 
 summer in collecting. Had intended to 
 explore the Mts [mountains] of Carolina but Dr.
 Gray has anticipated me. Where had
 I better go next summer to get the most
 new plants? Has the state of Miss. [Mississippi] been much
 explored? Or Texas? or the Mts of Tennessee?


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 There is a small Dismodium frequent in 
 the river alluvions of this county. It is
 erect & rarely a foot high, leaves rather large
 for the size of the plant & rhomboid ovate-fruit
 triangular, flowers small, white. I cannot name
 it from your flora although I sent it to you [crossed out: more than]
 nearly two years ago. I think you must have supposed
 it to be a branch of a large species, if not 
 to what species does it belong? I have found [crossed out: a]
 several species that were new to me this
 summer, but having spent most of the time
 in this county I cannot send you a great
 many species different from those already sent.
 It has rained a great deal here for several
 weeks past causing the fall plants to 
 flourish. The two preceding years were so dry
 that I gathered few plants in the fall & those
 were mostly specimens injured by the drouth [drought?]
 With respect to the 3 boxes that Mr. Carey
 has lately received I wish them to be kept
 till I get to N.Y. in a year from this. What 
 has become of those boxes tht Mr. De Ruyter
 of Mercer St. had for me? I will send you [crossed out: $20]
 $30 in N.Y. funds next December part to go towards
 paying for the flora & the rest to indemnify you
 for your trouble with my things. Be assured that I
 do not wish to trouble you without cheerfully paying
 you for that trouble. If more is required I will send
 more. I have directed my correspondents to send packages
 for me to your care because you once said that you
 would take care of them & I know of nobody else in the city who would


 [180 degrees at top of left side of page]
 Dr. Spillman of Columbia Mi. has written to me lately concerning 
 the Flora. In reply I told him to send my receipt for 4.50 & [crossed out: pay] the
 balance due to N.Y. & you would send him the 1st vol.


 [180 degrees at top of right side of page]
 I am disapointed in Spillman when at C. he urged me to give a letter
 of introduction to you. I did so but told him not to trouble you with
 postage & to send all packages [fr[illegible]] I fear he has been a trouble to you.


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 No. 21 in the collections which I have sent you Dr. Short says is saponaria
 vaccaria I think [crossed out: illegible] that he is mistaken it is certainly a native growing in the inmost
 recesses of swamps [crossed out: where [illegible]] in this county & no where else What do you call it?

        