
          I can send, & my Mr. Northam does not go.
I am anxious the box should get to N. Haven,
as it contains many specimens, & some
large ones, & has cost me not a little
trouble. The sloop Thames will lie in
[Qamties?] Slip, I believe. It leaves Troy
next week, & will be in N. Y. probably
about the 22nd or 23rd of this month.

I have begun to put up plants again for you.
I have Orchis ciliaris, I suspect from the flowers,
dried as they are - it is from the cost. I have Asclepias
tuberosa. Do the leaves vary much in [specimens?]?
[Ours?] agrees well with the characters - but one speci
men has very obtuse leaves, rather [wider?] at end
than towards the stem - another has lanceolate leaves,
but some cordate & others sub-cordate, or clasping.
That small piece of Aster I sent you last year, must
be it. A. solidaginoides, I think. I have a larger speci
men from Con. River. I have a plant in [?], resembles an
Aster, very white, long woolly looking aigartts [aigrets?] [grows/grew?] on
[?]-shore - Leaves ovate, [?], coarsly & sparsely toothed 
can you tell it? If you see it often in this state, you
can, for I can hardly forget it. Each calyx looks much like
a [head?] of Eriophorum. I hope I have Erioph. polysta
chium [polystachion?]. Scharnus albus [Schaenus alba?]is found here, & Dulichium [spathamium?]. 
I have a fine parcel of Lygodium pralmatum
but Aspidium spinulosum is rare here. You
will get only one or two this time, & only one of Aspleni
um angustifolium. I can find this only in one spot, & this
[added: year,] all the fronds are barren but but one. [there?]  & I fear it will
run out. I have not seen it in any other place, tho'

[right margin]
I wish you would get for me Bridel's
[Nov?]. [Meth?]. [Musionum?], if it has all
the species described - I do not know whether
you meant to say only the new sp. are
described. Also Persoon's Syn. Fung.

        