
          Dr. Torrey, New York.


 Dear Sir


 I take the liberty of submitting to your examination some doubtful species
 of my herbarium, with a request to affix your oppinion [opinion] about them and
 return them to me through Messrs. Place & Louillard Druggists near the
 Park theatre. If you find any of them interesting, I will be happy to collect
 them for you, if possible, in this next summer and send them to you. I [crossed out: know]
 the localities of almost all of them but have no duplicates for the present.
 The Scutellaria, I suspect to be a new species, if not a variety of the ovalifolia
 which grew in quantity in the same locality. This specimen was the only one
 in flower; I intended to revisit the spot; but was prevented by circumstances. 
 the plants appeared generally to be more hardy than the ovalifolia
 hirsute. The 3 specimens of [Boabueria?] seem [added: to be] varieties of the same species
 although the length of the petioles is very different; however that [marked?]
 B. cylindrica seems to differ much from the larger leaf one, of which
 I have specimens with leaves almost alternate. The large leaf caltha
 grows in abundance in the marshes of New Jersey -- I consider it to [added: be] the
 caltha palustris of the American botanists, although different from
 the European species. The other specimen was found abundantly in a
 meadow about Dogdestown; it is much smaller than the other and more
 like [crossed out:ly] the European C. palustris, if I remember it well. It cannot be
 the integerruence of Pursh?  The two specimens of Lysimachia do not correspond
 exactly with the description of their specific names; but I cannot make them
 otherwise; both are from New Jersey. I cannot refer the hypericum to any
 of the described species, except, in some regard, to the vitifolium of which it might
 be a variety. My sample [?] from Conrad is very different of the vitifolium
 both which Mr. Beck considers as being the same.
        