
          Rcd & Ansd July 11th

Rochester June 15. 1840.

My Dear Sir,

I want the loan of Lindley's 2nd Ed.
of his Nat. System of Botany. I own your reprint etc.
of it. I can not get, & I wish to see the 2nd for
a few days. Dr. Gray was with me for a few
moments, left the package, told me that [?]
plant, Betonica, in the yard of my neighbor;
said I might have his copy for a few days or
two [within?] weeks. I wish to know if you can
not get at it for me, & have it at Chilton's
As Dr. Gray needs it not now, I had better have
it now; if it can be be got at.

Piniguicula for you, but the Clover,
I can not find . It is not yet apparent
in the thick grass & common clover.

That Betonica was probably introduced
by the French. Gray says, they
had scattered many European plants
along the Lakes.

You may be at home, & have a
moment's time to attend to this for me.

In great haste

Yours as ever

C. Dewey

Dr. John Torrey. I have looked at Booth.
I see some mistakes. C. filifolia Nutt. is horrid;
I have the species from Nuttall.  In some things
[?] is loose. C. oligocarpa, Gray says, is that Kentucky
[?] plant, about which I once talked with you, as being
Schk's plant, but C. Hitchcockians, I repeat, is   
        