
          which I have not found hereabouts. Among them you will
be surprised & pleased to learn is Rottboellia rugosa Nutt.! 
of which I enclose a small part of a spike.

He has also Leersia oryzindes, and some other grasses
which I had not found. Also Fagus ferruginea and 
Filia pubescens. I shall urge him to send you specimens.*
I hope you have concluded to publish your
great work in parts or numbers, and that the first
portion will not be delayed beyond twelve months. 
If there shall appear to be a probable chance of establishing
the "Botanical Magazine" let me know it, and 
I will see what can be done for it in the South.

You will oblige me if you would send the best portion
of the plants which I left at the Lyceum to Dr. 
Short of Lexington, except the Asters, which belong to
Mr. Wilson, and which he wishes you to name for him, 
when it shall be convenient to yourself. What is the
approved arrangement of our Ophiorrhiza mitreola.
Gray has written in my catalogue "Mitreola" but I 
[crossed out: would] want the specific term. Will you not write
convolulus[convolvulus] and Ipomaia[Ipomoea]? Do you bring back Smilacinae, 
Polygonatum, etc. to Convallaria?

Since I arrived here I have a letter from Mr. Curtis, who 
has spent the summer in the mountains of this state, where
he has been industrious in the pursuit of plants. Many
interesting things & two new species, as he informs me, have been
the result of this seasons labours. Mr. C. will probably at a 
future day publish something more on [added: the] botany of North
Carolina.

*When they have been recieved & examined I will thank you for a 
list of them, in order to render my catalogue as perfect as practicable
        