
          present but, if possible, I must put up a few
mosses, which I have sent before. For I am not
certain I understand yet for it was so long before
I got your answer on them, the I fear a few labels
were disarranged, as I know one [file/pile?] of my
plants got handled on some occasions. I hope
you will have some patience with me, for as to
studying mosses, I can not but I wish to know
them, if so it may be.

Do send me the Hedyotis glomerata, Ell. without
fail. Sprengel called one of my plants this. But
what can it be, I know not  & I beg that you
will send it to me? By the way, I had better return
my thanks for what you last sent - some are
very interesting. The Alga are beautiful.
There is a sea-weed, used by Physicians, called
dulce, or something like it - which I want to
know it is I suspect a [Halyminia?]  it is
a broad leaf with wide divisions attached by a 
very narrow strip - somewhat like this,
[drawing at the left margin: a circle subtended at its lower right quadrant by two smaller, paddle-shaped forms] as I recollect, for I have it not by me 
but it is not [lichin?] islandicus, as I rec
ollect.

I wish you would examine that Solida
go I sent to you, I called S. ulmifolia? The
upper side of the leaves is very smooth, rubbed another
way - but the under side is very rough backwards,
& irritates the skin. It seems to me to be S. ulmi
folia or S. patula. You did not tell me what
you thought of it. A decoction of root & leaves
has been very sucessfully used in [?]
instances as a cure for epileptic fits. It was
prescribed by an Indian, to a man I know, &
[cured?], & has since been used for others. No matter
how a thing comes, if it proves to be of service.
The root & leaves are astringent in the mouth,
& have a continued & rather sharp taste.

For the bugs, I am much obliged - but

[right margin]
That Topaz is large enough for you to try it. The topaz is
in little grains large as the head of a pin, [?] thro' it 
you can take out a dozen by careful looking without in
juring the specimen - I presume there are hundreds in it.
They are yellow - may be yellow quartz - but [rubbed/snubbed?]
between two plates of glass.
        