
          As I am now separated from my Herbarium for some time, I must
defer sending you the four carices and Asters [Asters?], and some grapes I have
collected, as I must depend upon you for their names, and can
I suppose [crossed out: only] obtain them only by affixing the same numbers to these
in my collection and those I send you. and receiving their titles annexed
to their respective numbers.

Among other [other?] plants, of which I have not now specimens to furnish you 
with, the more remarkable are Heteranthera reniformis, Utricularia
gibba, Bartonia paniculata, [crossed out: Chenopodium hybridum], Equisetum
[hinosum?], Galium lanceolatum, [?] virginianum, Panicum hispidum
Potentilla confertiflora, [?] cucullata, Brachyelytrum aristosum, [crossed out: ?], 
Glyceria acutiflora, Piptatherum [nigrum?], Schwalbea 
americana. Of this last I have as yet found but one single plant. 
Hibiscus [Hibiscus?] trimum grows pretty abundantly below Greenbush on the East 
side of the River, on the gravelly shore, in company with Antirrhinum
elatine.

In May last I founda large flowered Prunus on the shore at
Hoboken, which agrees best with P. nigra : But, I am not perfectly 
satisfied as to its identity with that species.

I should as a general rule prefer our plants to those of any other
country. For the purpose of comparison I should occasionally however
prefer a single European plant to many American species though
utterly unknown to me. Thus a specimen of Peplis portula would
be more agreeable to me than almost any of our own vegetable
productions, because I should like to see it on the same paper with 
Crypta minima. If you could send me occasional duplicates 
and triplicates &c.[etcetera] - you would enable me to increase my 
stock by exchanges with western Botanists.

Mr. David Thomas of Greatfield, Cayuga Co. , I believe an accurate
botanist, and a zealous and successful cultivator of our [our]?
indigenous flowers, assures me that Collinsia verva is a [underlined: biennial]
flowering in [underlined: May]. Phlox divaricata and P. subulata, according
        