
          Troy (Old-Bank Place) Feb. 4th 1824

Dear friend,

I rarely apologize for any thing right
or wrong. But I sent you Schviniz[Schweinitz] long ago. You
did not get it, and I now send it by mail. I could
tell you a long story about its not reaching you; but
it will not be interesting.

I like your first number very much; and the
Phil. & Md. book does not talk to well about it. Still
we countrymen can but say, what a fine thing to have
a reviewer at our command. If Gabriel should write
as good a book as he is capable of, and was no way
connected with a reviewer, he could not obtain even
a civil notice.

I have put in your Schwiniz[Schweinitz] at the 22nd page,
a Semna, Marchantia, Lichen looking thing. Tell
me what it is? I collected it at the [crossed out: upper Falls of]
uppermost of the Trenton Falls, 18 miles north of 
Utica, on a [added: thin] black mould on damp rocks in the woods.
I see spots on the [?] like the cups in Marchantia,
where the [?] issue.

I will put in several plants and number them
No. 1. What is this? Trenton Falls.
No. 2. Do[ditto]! TRenton Falls
No. 3. Tonawanda Creek, Stamens thus [drawing of two stamen pairs]
aquatic, 3 to 10 feet high.
No. 4. Thousands along Niagara River.
No. 5. Niagara Falls.
No. 6. Niagara Falls.

Perhaps I might look them over, but I do not now
know them. I should have sent you many western plants
but my best collection was destroyed. I shall collect extensively
next summer.
        