
                                                     West Chester, Penn  Sept. 18. 1827


 Dear Sir,


                    I suppose by this time you are
 located in the City of New York, in conformity with
 your recent appointment.  I should be happy
 to hear from you, when your leisure permits, -
 and to learn what you are doing in the Botanical
 way and when you expect to send your second
 volume of the Flora to press.  Since I saw
 you, I have been employing all my leisure
 time in collecting specimens of our plants
 for my correspondent: and although I
 have missed finding some of  the more rare
 species of the vicinity, this season, I still
 hope to be able to send a number that
 will be interesting.  In a few weeks I
 shall overhaul them, and transmit such
 as have been asked for, as far as I can
 supply them.  You will, of course, be
 first attended to: as I wish you to see
 every thing of interest, that I can furnish,
 before you print your second volume.
 Among other thins, I think I have a non-
 descript species of Aster - at least I can
 find nothing like in the books.  I have
 also had the pleasure to find, recently, a
 quantitiy of Gerardia auriculata  in this
 immediate neighborhood.  I had looked for
 it in vain since 1816, when a single
 specimen was brought to me.  Like most 
 [dynamous?] plants, it dries badly - but I will

        