
          The others are from Mecklenberg, Lincoln, & Burke [Burke?]
 Counties, indicated, I believe, by their respective
 initials. ---- ---- I have put up some Cryptogamiae [Cryptogamiae], 
 of which I collected a few. My study
 of these orders has been so limited that I am afraid
 to give names where I thought I knew
 the plants. I shall be particularly obliged to
 you for the result of your examination of them.


 A bundle of Fungi & Lichens which I throw
 in, you may burn up or preserve, as you choose.
 It consists of trash for aught I know, and may 
 contain a treasure too, for anythging I know
 to the contrary. I commenced an examination
 of them last Spring, but I was so deficient
 in the proper helps [helps?] that I gave it up.


 If I have sent you any interesting Mopes [Mopes?] [underlined: Mopes],
 I wish you would signify it to stimulate me
 to further collection.


 The mountains of this State must I think
 afford a rich treat to the Botanist, but I 
 have as yet only attained the outer spurs [spurs?]. I
 hope, in the course of another season, to get
 more among them. Indeed, I do not believe
 that any State in the Union is richer in Nat.
 Hist. than this. -- Every body knows Michaux
 & Fraser up in the mountains. And it is quite
 amusing to witness their attempts to designate
 plants by words which they have casually picked

        