
          that had been left aside in the preceding publications
 of Prof. [Professor] Gray and yourself - The Graminea by Dr
 Thurber, the Filices by Dr Eaton. Is it so, and when
 will the whole be  published ? Shall I have a copy?


 Such a work is indeed very much wanted, and
 with the view to complete it, I had formed the resolution
 to embody in one publication, with abbreviated descriptions,
 all the new plants that had been published in various
 works, since the publication of your N. A. [North America] flora as
 far as it goes. With your intended labors, my undertaking
 successfully perfromed as I hoped to do it would
 have completed the present desideratum of botanists
 studying our North American plants, as long as the
 N. A. [North Americam] flora would remain in the imperfect and unachieved 
 state in which it [crossed out: remains] [written above: is now]


 But . . . . .  After assembling all the works required
 for my purpose, and having imported the continuation
 of Decandole prodromns Walper's Annales
        