
          Wms. Coll. Aug. 25th 1824

Dear Sir,

Just after I last wrote you, I read your letter.
Hoping you will answer mine without delay, I begin
a reply to yours, & that briefly if I can, for I have no
strength to spare. About W. Point, you will judge,
if a judgement be necessary - but it is a good place
for some one that is fit for it.

Carex forever!!

So it is- I have made out, for Silliman [a host?] for Vol.
9, containing Schw. new species fort this quarter 
for I knew I could say things he could not - & in the
Index he made some slight mistakes, because
he had only the dry to look at. All his species, I
do not know - but what I adopt, in my radicalism,
seem very clear to my mind. C. Torreyana, I do not
know, what it is. C. filiformis is very difft. from C.
pellita in its leaves & culm, & enough in fruit. They
look not at all alike in the green state. C. [scobrata?]
is very dift. from either, & so on.

I would, if I
could, send you a piece of that Zenite but you gave
me only a mite. Your minerals that you spoke
of, I hardly have [read?] about. That Cummingtonite,
as I call it in Sill. Journ., & call it a variety of
Epidote, is clearly not Tremolite grows black before
blowpipe [?] [fisible?] into a slag it is Epidote
or a new one but is is [Ep.?] I have not
seen that amount of the [humbug?] Jeffersonite & can
not say anything about it.

[Colla polustris?] & [Acthiopica?] greatly resemble each
other in fruitification either will answer for the
type I have a fine flower of the Exotic & saw
it growing. I will try to send you the seed & a
living one a flower, except dry, I cannot.

I have not [seen?] [?] [new?] Flora he offered to
give all my Carices but I was away, & did
not get his letter before the work was too far
gone.

Eaton, I do not hear of, lately - can
not tell where he is. I hope you will continue
friends tho' the root of all evil, not
money, but the love of money, may divide
you.
        