
          vine with a grape-looking nut,  which I will send you.
 It does not well agree in its characters with Menispermum,
 but I suspect it is one.  Who would expect to find there [?then]
 Aristolochia tomentosa or Spiraea opulifolia?  The plant
 which I have beenwatching so carefully as the future
 Chapmania turns out to be a Parnassia.  -- curious thing --


 My Sept. visit added many species to the Catalogue, such
 as Campanula Amer. Mimulus Alatus & ringens, Lobelia Card., 
 Orchis viridis Ph.!!-- a little bit of a thing with a scrotiform 
 spur, Marshallia angust. Liatris sp? Diplopappus n. sp., Zornia
 Baldwinia [?Balduina?] multiflora &c. [etc}  I also procured excellent specimens of
 the two new ferns.  I am perplexed about the Catalogue.
 I am aware that it is imperfect, and that in its present 
 state it does not contain a perfect list of the plants of Gadsden
 Co., but I am reminded of the melancholy fate of my excellent
 friend, that what is to be accomplished in this way must be done
 speedily.  Its publication was the part Mr. Croom had taken 
 upon himself, and it is a part for which I am not prepared.
 It is not suitable for an Article in the Journals unless perhaps
 I introduce, in connexion, a description of a number of new 
 Florida plants which I have already prepared.  On the whole
 I think it desirable to print it in Tallahassee.  Your advice on this subject is desired.. You [crossed out:r] are preparing, I think, a paper on
 some new American Genera & species.  I wish in your next you
 would state what Florida plants you have described in order
        