
          wish to send anything to Brongniart it will reach him by being directed to
 Mr. Barnet American Consul Paris, care of Mr. Beasly Am. Con. [American Consul a] Havre.
 A Mr. [Jacques] Clarion who calls himself Professor of Botany at the School
 of Pharmacy [?] acquaintance with me at the Garden & said he
 wished to have an exchange with someone in America. I gave
 him my card & told him I would be happy to make some arrangement
 with him intending to send him to you and Halsey but I have not
 seen him since (7th).


 14th
 He has just been here. He says that he as a very large herb'm [herbarium]
 and many American plants which he has procured from Mx. [Michaux], [Louis Augustin Guillaume] Bosc
 & others. He can send you several thousand species & is in partnership
 with a young botanist who intends to devote himself exclusively
 to the career of botany & will travel over Europe with that object &
 will carry on the exchange in union with him so that you can
 have plants from Spain, Italy &c. He will write however & speak 
 for himself.  He seems to be a very respectable man, about 35 yrs of age
 & appears well acquainted with the principal botanical characters here
 he & Kunth seem to be intimate, I have seen them together at the
 Garden. 


 21st
 Clarion has sent me the enclosed letter for you & I suppose you
 will find in it any further information you may want.


 This morning I finished looking over Mx's [Andre Michaux's] Herb'm [Herbarium]. I have learnt much
 by it. He has the Leersia oryzoides under the name of L. Virginica & the
 L. oryzoides of the Flora is the true virginica. His Gratiola officinalis [added with caret: B.?] if I can
 trust to my recollection is your G. neglecta [Gratiola neglecta]. His Aira ambigua [now Deschampsia cespitosa] appears to be
 species that I brought from the Western Lakes & though new, his specimens are more
 luxuriant. There are specimens of the Sanguisorba media [now Sanguisorba officinalis] in the Herb. though
 not in the Flora. I do not recollect what you decided about the plant we
 used to call Ferula villosa [now Angelica venenosa], but the rough sketch of the leaflets which I enclose
 will show you that is not the Angelica triquinata as Mr. Collins thought. Mx's
 specimen (but one) is good of the leaf but the umbel is young. The lower pair of leaflets
 is as strictly trowel shaped as if it has served for the model, & [the odd one?] acuminate
 at both ends, all inciso-dentata, & teeth mucronunate.
        