
          If you write any thing for Schulter I may give you a 
description or two. I rarely set down to correct a description.

I will give you one or two.

Cimicifuga serpentania. Class XIII. Order I.

Calyx about 4-leaves, becoming coloured before
expanding, caucous; corol O: stamens numerous:
stigma su_sessile, curving towards the gibbous side
of the germ: capicle 2-valved, dehissent at its strasuture.
Flowers late in July.

Note: This description I took from twenty or thirty
specimens, which grow from 4 to 9 feet high, two
miles below [added: the city of] Hudson and fifty rods from the east
shore of Hudson's river.

Hydrophyllum virginicum. Has hirsute [added: leaves] in woods about
Williams College and Troy; but the leaves are glabrous about
at damp fields near Catskill

Sporynum androsemifolium. The nectaries are not described correcly in any book I have seen. This was first
pointed out by Judge Buel's wife, of Troy.

Heteronthera Calyx, a spathe 2- or 3-flowers:
corol membranaceous with a border 4-, rarely 6-, cleft;
tube long: anthers, 2 attached to the divisions of the corol; and
a third much larger, attached to the top of the style: capsules
ovate, many-seeded: stigma sub-capitate, one-sided.
veniformis leaves least-veniform, long petiola, glabrous, 
bearing the flowers on the sides of the petioles and
clasping the peduncles with with membranaceous wings.
Note. I took this description from twenty or thirty specimens
which grow in the mud between high-, and low-water [much?]
in South Bay adjoining Hudson city. Flowers Aug 17.
Whether this should be placed in the class Triandria or 
Gynandria, is a question.

Did you examine that lumbago looking mass, which I 
sent Col. Gibbs? What is it? Tons of it are to be found in our
gray-[rock?] districts in this county and Blenheim &c.

Your friend,
Amos Eaton

N.B. You will see some of our puffing in the 
AlbanyPlough-boy of next Saturday or of the week after.
        