
          Recd. Novr 4th
 Ansd Decr 6th


 Quincy Fla. Oct 22d. 1835


 Dear Sir,


 I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th 
 inst. by this days mail - I was wrongly informed respecting the
 vessel & was not aware of the error until about four weeks ago.
 I visited St. Marks, found the Box & put it on board the "Shamrock",
 if I rightly remember, which would sail in the course of two or 
 three days & will probably arive at New York before this letter
 reaches you. - I think ti was the only vessel which would leave
 the port for some time, - if I am mistaken in the name of the
 Schooner, it would be advisable to notice the lists of arrivals in the 
 papers. - I suspect now that the plant which I called a [illeg: ?rawichis]
 is the Bletia verecunda of Nutt. for a few days since I found
 two specimens of the C.[?] multiflac. [?], which are altogether different
 from the one above alluded to.


 I found a little plant growing among the sphagnum in a swamp
 near this village which appears to be undescribed, I called it the
 Tripterella nutans  These are the notes I took.
 Root fibrous - Stem erect, mostly simple, purple, very glabrous & shiny, 4-6
 in. high. Leaves merely [?[ alternate, subulate scales. Flowers on peduncles
 6-8 lines [?] long, lateral & terminal, solitary, nodding. Cor[olla] campanulate
 white, marked internally with 9 purple lines, clothing the Cap at base,
 border 6-cleft, intermediate seg. narrow, erect. Fil. 3. to the wide summits
 of which the 2-lobed anth. are attached, short, inserted into the tube
 of the Cor. Stig. 3, firmly adhering to the Anth. Cap. subglabrous, not winged,

        