
          use of two terms of the same import; though it
would have appeared more classical to have shown
the reader, that I know a great number of hard 
words. The book is certainly more useful for
exchanging all the hardest and most unnecessary
front of that forbidding terminology, at which
so many students start back in terror. I think
I shall change some specific names and give all the
synonyms and authorities at the foot margin, in
the manner of Claveland's Mineralology.

I found the Orontium vegetation at Hudson
in abundance; though I had never before seen 
it many miles from the sea-shore. It is the principal
plant on the middle ground between Hudson
and Athens. Did I ever tell you, that I found
the Simnetis (Spartina) polystachia at Albany? I 
supposed, before, that this was exclusively a [hole in paper]
grass.

The mountains of Blenheim are literally covered 
with the Sinnea borealis, often for miles in
extent. The thousands of Aracaena borealis growing
there renewed the enquiry in my mind, whether
this is the same plant as the Convallonia umbullualata. 
The pedicels are not bracted and the keel of the leaf
is never ciliate. The cilia on the margins of the leaves
are always [rerecaped?]. If you ever saw a convallonia umbellulata.
I wish you would tell me something about 
it.

Your friend

Amos Eaton
        