
          Why don't you buy it?

I have not seen your description of Hadyotis
ciliolata, & can not lay my hand on the
work. I am sorry for I hoped otherwise,
& to find all well. I never could make out
the plant from your flora. Here it grows
in abundance, & would make a beautiful plant
for borders. I seems to flourish in the
midst of grass, so that it will fight
its way.

Deb. 17. I have just seen the "Bot. [Franhei?]", &, in
the time it came out, may have said that to those
who would have the abbreviations & forego other &
larger works, it would be available under a teacher,
& yet, I do not know that I did, except in conversation
here to my class, & told them not to get it, but,
at any rate, so much as that opinion expresses a
[?] nay critique to the contrary. I trust you
have & no friend of yours, has taken up this work;
it is to small game for a man. If the object
was to attack Eaton, then I would have taken
the [Mammal?]. If it was to oppose the Linnaean system,
I regret it. Once you thought that system was
[?]. Is it less so, because you have one more
wonderful? The Nat. Methodis for the [?] Drop
the other, & you drive all botany from Schools & Academies,
take away all its [pleasures?] from the young,
& confirm Botany to the horrid alone. And to them
let the Higher Bot. go. But think of the Nat. System
in Mrs. Willard's School for example; what a
burlesque. But, I know not what the [intigur?] is, or
would wish. I would like to see it, if I could, to see
how such game is handled. A few years ago I
        