
          ramble at my ease through our Mts. I hav
  chalked out the whole Alpine region from
 the head waters of the Kenhawa to the sources
 of the Hiwassee, including the rich territory
 lately ceded by the Cherokees, & which I suspect
 has never been examined by a Botanist.
 I only wish I could have reached the Mts. about the
 1st of May, so as to get some of the Spring plants
 in flower, as the Diphylla, the Cruciferae, & Carices, particularly C. Fraserii [Carex fraseri, now Cymophyllus fraserianus ], which I would 
 give a handsome [added with caret: sum] to meet with.


 I need a companion very much, but am
 afraid I shall have to work single handed.


 I hardly need say how satisfactory your 
 Flora is. Your localities are not always extensive
 enough, though I do not know how you
 could be expected to know every locality of the
 plants in our country. You will not feel very
 deeply mortified, I presume, nor have your opinions
 very particularly unsettled, if I say that I have
 sometimes questioned your references, though I remember
 only one at present, & that is the one about
 which I am most confident; -- I mean [Thomas] Nuttall's
 G. pilosa [Galactia pilosa]. [William] Darlington has expressed my opinion in his
 Flora, & I shall probably hold to it until I have the
 evidence of positive proof against me.


 Respectfully,


 M.A. Curtis
        