
          [note in pencil: [1849]]


 Jane St. - Sat'y [Saturday] Morn'g [Morning]


 My dear friend-- 


 I feel as though I had done
 more than enough work on the [Alvan Wentworth] Chapman plants
 to pay for the share I kept of them; & I therefore
 now make over to you the entire bundle of
 mosses, subject only to this "lien on the property"--
 viz. a named set for myself-- with the localities--
         a Do. Do. [ditto ditto] for [Stephen Thayer] Olney--
 If there are any new or doubtful things you will
 probably send them to [William Starling] Sullivant, & in this case, please
 put into any set a number corresponding with
 what you attach to his, that I may have his
 determinations, correctly, when you get them.
 Chapman only remarks of the package of mosses "They
 are, I believe, all Floridian, & I believe there is a
 new species of Calymperes, amongst them"-- If, however,
 the mosses are like the phenog. [phenogamous] plants, you will
 find amongst them many that he collected when
 in Massachusetts. I take this opportunity of
   
        