
          I am nevertheless, in hopes of being able to furnish
 you with a specimen, during the year, - as a gentle-
 man in North Carolina has promised to collect plants
 for me this season, & I have specially requested
 him to get  Tipularia, Dionea, & some other choice
 plants from that region.  If he does not disap-
 point me, you may rely on having one.


      I have made out a new list of Desiderata,
 from your compendium, & put it into the
 package with the books aforesaid; by which
 you will be able to see exactly what plants
 are wanted in our collection.  A few of them
 were contained in the last parcel received from
 you - & those I have run the pen through:
 so that anything now in that list will
 be highly acceptable.  The  former list you
 may destroy, & keep this one for reference.


     I am much pleased to hear that you
 have a prospect of finishing your northern
 Flora.  If that were done, & then a work
 resembling DeCandolle's Prodromus; as you suggest
 embracing the whole U. States, - we should be able
 to botanize with some satisfaction.  It would be
 delightful to have a compendious Flora of the Union,
 of an authentic character, for a pocket companion;
 with Elliott's detailed descriptions of Southern
 Plants, & yours of the Northern, in cases of
 difficulty.  There would be then, I think, be little to desire
 in the way of American Floras, for at least one generation.
        