
          I hope you will find time, during the year, to
 give up the second volume of your Flora.  It
 is as much more satisfactory, in its detailed de-
 scriptions of our plants, than any other work which
 has yet appreared, that I am longing to see it
 completed.  I am the more anxious to have
 that work done, and off your hands, because
 I cannot relinguish the favorite idea of
 seeing you engaged in preparing, in a portable
 & convenient form, a Complete Flora of the
 United States.  That is the
 Flora which is now wanting; &
 I think the materials are pretty
 nearly ready for an attempt.
 I want to see such a work
 from an American hand - a real
 Standard Flora for the Union; one
 which a Botanist may take with him,
 let him go to what part of our country he
 may, and find it to answer his purpose.  I
 hope not to be suspected of blarney, when I say
 with great sincerity, that you are the very
 man who can, and ought to give up such
 a work.  I know it would be a work of labor,
 but I trust you will find the means of accom-
 plishing it, and that you will keep a steady
 eye to the undertaking.  More of this when I see you.


                                                With great respect,
                                                 Your obliged friend,


 John Torrey M.D.               Wm Darlington
 West Point

        