
                                                                                                                                                             Rochester Jan. 15 1844.

My Dear Sir,

As we were collecting plants last
summer, my son collected several specimens of 
Hydrastis canadensis. As the plant seemed interesting
to our friend Dr. Gray, it was proposed to 
send some specimens to you, so, now they go.
I believe he has added an Orchis, whose
name I do not see, and which, he asks you 
to write me when you shall be able. I have
sent to Dr. Gray, the roots of the Hydrastis, and
of several specimens of Carex, and of Actaea
racemosa, which grows here in the greatest
abundance, as he requested roots and I
could well do it.

I hoped you would put up for me 
those Carices, you mentioned in a letter
more than a year old, as I should 
like to get hold of them.

I am not likely to get to N. York,
so that I may not see you very soon.
C. Barratti, is found, and is C. well known 
over Europe, as Boott says, and so it appears.

I expect to send C. Hitchcockiana
ere long to Germany to be compared
with the Herb. of Schk.  I can
not yet believe, he could make a 
figure so far away from our plant,
if he had one to draw from [written over undecipherable word].

We find few Mosses about us, very
few, indeed, they are wondrous rare, as
it seems to me.

I had a letter a
few weeks ago from Tuckerman, who
seems to have enjoyed the White Mts.
        