
          species of the same genus. The shrub is 1-2 ft. high, growing
 near Lincolnton, but I have never seen flower or fruit.
 I have searched diligently for this plant in the books, but
 it cannot be found, & must be undescribed.


 [Asa] Gray's Carol. [Carolina] excursion, as it appeared in the N.C. papers, 
 was prepared by my self at the request of the Pres't [Preseident] of our
 University. It was however hardly noticed in the State!!
 This is real N. Carolina indifference. 


 A new edition of my Catalogue, about which you make
 enquiry, I have never contemplated. I merely intend, when
 the N.A. Flora is completed, to furnish a Supplement to
 the Boston Journal of Nat. Hist. I have detected about
 sixty more species at Wilmington since its publication.
 I may possibly publish a Catalogue of N. Car. [North Carolina] plants
 at some future time. I have already about 1800 species. 
 I suppose there are 200 or 300 more in the State. [Samuel Botsford] Buckley
 added about 20 to my list.


 [Karl Sigismund] Kunth's Enum: Plant: [Enumeratio plantarum omnium hucusque cognitarum] Vol. III. I have got. 


 I should have answered your letter at once, but
 it came to hand the very hour I was starting for Newbern,
 from whence I am now returning. I took a box of plants
 along for Gray, comprising over 100 specimens of Carex Fraseri,
 & about 20 other things of no great interest except two or
 three. Among them Baptisia mollis [now Thermopsis mollis] in flower & fruit, Galactia
 gessiliflora from N. Car. [North Carolina] :(!) Scirpus Mitchellii (n. sp?)
 & Fothergilla Hunteriana (n. sp?) The last you may have
 seen in Buckley's bundle, as I gave him a specimen. It looks
 like Hamamelis. The Scirpus looks a little like S. Americanus.


 I am surprised at your addressing me at Washington,
 for I left that place 18 months ago, & now live
 in Hillsborough. It is a rather poor locality for plants,
 but it has got Baptisia mollis, & Asplenium montanum.
 On my way hither to day, I got fine specimens of the fruit of
 Baptisia villosa.
        