
          And [Answered]

Rochester Jan. 25. 1842.

My Dear Sir,

Your letter of October has lain
long, because I have had too much to do. A
moment's leisure admonishes me, to write to you.
I am obliged by the names of the plants, I sent you.
I collected them in this neighborhood, close around
us.  I am too troubled with the proper grasses, for
the last season, I have looked too little at them.
That poor specimen of Astragalus, as you call
it, flowers at a difft. season from the
other, & is a very difft. thing. I
wish you would look at it again.
I sent a new Pogonia, of which you
say nothing. Have you nothing to say?
Let me have it. I shall look up
that Astragalus next season, if I
am able. I collected some hundred of
plants the last season, & I have given a Catalogue
of them in my report of our Academy,
to the Regents of the University. I hope they
will publish them in this next report. I
have given a description of Hedyotis [idiolata?],
Hook., which is wholly better than any
I have seen, for our plant. Indeed I
could not make out the plant from any
thing I had, & sent it to you to find it out.
That Betonica grows from a root brought
from Lake Ontario, & is set out in a yard. It
was of course brought over mountains from Canada.
        