
          I have included a number of plants in the package which
I am unwilling to dispose of, being the only specimens I possess.
All such I have sent for you to look at, if perhaps you
might find anything new or unsual among them. They are
marked with a cross (+) denoting that I should like to have
them returned.

I have ventured to remark upon a few plants which I hope
you will excuse. I have not given the specific names in
very many cases, having substituted letters, designating those 
in my herbarium by the same for future reference. This mode will
conceal my own ignorance if nothing more. But I adopted it at
the ouset for convenience, to save time adn the letter to designate
such species as include several varieties, and to mark
the same plant which might be in different parts of my collection
without labels. My plants being confused, I have in
some cases I presume repeated them. As an instance, I found
a Trichadium [underlined] in three places, and sent all without the
time to examine if they were the same, yet I presume they [are?].

It will give me pleasure to learn your references of all  the
plants which I send, but if inconsistent with other duties or an unpleasant
task I hope you will freely excuse yourself, and confine yourself 
to Solidago, Aster, Panicum, Cyperus, Rhynchospora [?], and the 
like of them. Some of the Rhynchosporae [?] I have been unable to refer
to any known species. -- I have sought your references in these
Genera as a sort of nuclei  around which I might gather other
species with more order and accuracy. If int he others I find your
references like my own I shall be able to exercise the more confidence
hereafter, a state of mind to which I have not yet attained. I am
sorry that I did not pay more attention to Carices [?] while at the 
South. I collecte donly about thirty species, all of which are well
defined except the two which I have sent you. I purpose to return
to N. Carolina next Fall and if the duties of my profession
will admit of it I will take pleasure in secruing for you such
species of this Genus, or any other indeed, as I may meet with. I
take the more pleasure in furnishing you with what specimens I have
        