
          For myself, I give to it all the time
 I can spare from official and other
 duties. It is a source of great pleasure
 to me to explore the woods, the fields,
 the waters, once more with an object.
 Every excursion returns to me some 
 old friend. Within a few days, I 
 have found the Polemonium reptans
 & Trillium erythrocarpum, plants
 which, I think, I have not seen 
 since 1826. The Floerkea I find in 
 a damp wood, among nettles [&c.?].
 From the books I had inferred that
 it grew in water.


 A week or more ago, in a dry
 piece of woods, in a limestone soil,
 within a [crossed out: space?] oblong of say 34 feet
 by 6, I found 25-30 specimens of 
 a plant, of which I [crossed out: send] inclose [enclose]
 you 3. It looked pretty, each simple 
 stem tipped with its minute white
 flower. I examined  it as thoroughly as
 I could with an ordinary pocket magnifier,
        