
          which any boy might detect. But just[stop?] 
and consider. I was obliged to have all those
documents spread before me, throughout the
whole. Pursh, Michaux, Persoon, Muhlenburg's
catalogue and [gropes?], Bigelow, Torrey's manuscripts
and letters, The Deerfield list of plants,
Northampton list, my own journals and remarks, 
my own translations from Achorius' lichens,
and Persoon's fungi, which I took [?]
[Horren?], Turton's, Linneus for crytogamous
species, Sprengel's cryptogamous plants
and Nuttall's genera after I received it, and always
the number of Ree's Cyclopaedia containing
the genus, from the time that Smith falls in
with Pursh. These were always spread before me.
Then I had to [select?] from Ives and Big[?][hole in paper]
letters and remarks, and to [select?] localiti[hole in paper]
Beck., and Gray's, collections &c[etc.] &c[etc.] If amidst
such a [mass?] of trash I blundered occasionally
am I not exculpable? I had [?];
but I had intermixed with my own works
last summer every thing from [?], which we
find important, relating to the plants which I
find [Lizards?] in his first five chapters.

You in my remarks expecting your catalogue
and Ive'. But Ives is such a dilatory fellow
I fear his will not come soon; though he
assures me it shall appear in a few weeks.

What is this plant? I had labelled
it [Ghiralis Pov.?] (Canlina fragilis [?].) But 
on examining it I find a cleft  spathe, and a [crossed out ?]
[crossed out ?] style with something like 6 petals, 3 nectaries
and 3 stigmas. I have tried to make it every
thing and success in nothing. I have [added: long] known this plant
as a [Ghurialis?]; and from a boy as from [?].

A. Easton
        