
          Has that box of plants gone to Germany? & to whom
was it to go? I have never heard?

I collect plants for you. And shall get all in my
way. You ask for some, which are not here, & which I am
not likely to get. I will mention them, but you should be
disappointed. Lycopus uniflorus, I have never seen, unless it
be the little greenish plant I sent you long ago, unnamed &
numbered? I can not tell what it is. Monarda allophylla,
Lobelia [Thalmii?], Uvularia amplexifolia (mistaken for rosea I suspect), Trillium cernuum Polygonum cilinode, Pyrola minor,
Mitella prostrata, Prunus pygmaea, Carex umbellata, Fraxinus
juglandifolia, are not here I suspect. A few others, you men
tion are doubtful but I shall look out for them. I wish
you would tramp with me on Saddle Mt. for Pinus Frase
rri [fraseri], about June 4th.

The mineral from N. York
which you have not found imbedded, is very curious in
deed, & is a fine specimen. You had better tell your good mineral
ogist, that it is a salt of gluxina by the saccharic acid. This
acid is a new one, I believe, but as much an acid perhaps, as 
[silex?] according to Brezelius. Tell me the precise process for form
ing so handsome crystals, if there be one.

I have carefully
watched the willows. The one I called S. grisea is undoubtedly S.
rigida, if Eaton be right in the flowering & leaving of the two.
Salix vitellina, staminate, seems to grow native here.

That mineral, which so much resembles Tremolite, is indeed
infusible, & seems to be Quartz. I have only looked at it a little.
It belongs to you to find it out, as it is your mineral. I shall by &
by try it more, if you do not settle the matter. It is a curious 
form of Quartz, if it be indeed quartz. I can not but
suspect, that it may be a new var. or subsp. of Tremolite.

I have put up minerals for you - but I fear, few
that you will want, or care about. I am [wholly?] destitute
of duplicates. I have put up but few, as you will see, &
they will hardly repay your trouble in looking at them.
I expect some that you will want by & by. I hope to make an
excursion of 40 to 50 miles - but I may not be able.
The long fibrous tremolite, I have, & have sent you a [?].
I have not yet recd. more of [Mach?], & can not [break?]
my specimen without injury.

I have put up a few plants, which I have on
hand others are drying. The Dirca is not dry 
but I have sent a few for immediate use, if
you need.

If I understand the European writers on Geology,
they do not intend to maintain that all of the
primitive rocks [?] as strata but most of
        