
          I was aware there were more specimens than [species?], as
I said to you - but I undoubtedly confounded several of
them. But if I can do you any good in sending specimens,
I shall be glad to do it. I shall make an excursion for
Lichens, as you request, tho' I think [Loddh?] Mt. will not
be the best place. Towards the top few rocks appear, & were
those covered with something I sent you - a moss I
believe - yet I did not look out very sharply for li
chens. You sent me only one or two of your Cryptoga
mia. Any you can send will be gladly rcvd. - & not less
so, the [Eurofoson sparins?].

I am glad to hear that the Carices may yet be
heard from. I want to know their given names.

Specimens of the native [Iron?] I had rcvd. a year or
two since - but am glad of the one you sent. I had forgot
ten I sent you [Stamotide?] from Sheffield. I found out
the crystals sometime ago & pointed them out to Prof.
Hall of Middleburg College, who remarked that
they exactly resembled some he had from some part of
the range. Of the new [serpentine?] I mean to send
you much more & better.

I will [?]
the correspondence you mention - but perhaps I can
not get a box to you in season this fall. Any
aid you can give me in plants also, you know I shall
[?], & I will try to repay you by our plants.

Col . Gibbs & Mr. [Pierce?] are [?] in [?] on the
subject of minerals - & will I hope find enough to
repay their labors.

The [X?]. Solonis grows in marshes & wet plains, where
rocks & stones are not found - [?] purple, when nearly
[ripe?]. This hardly agrees with Mx.

You shall
have some Dirca. I am now to begin upon a box for you,
which will be forwarded soon as may be. Do you
        