
          before this paid for the two copies I have had been 
hoping to see you in Boston (which hope can hardly
be said to have now any existence) & expecting to have 
been long before this in N. York myself it has been delayed
to this moment. I now enclose an order on Mesr.
Shipman & Corning for $20 which I think is the
amt.[amount] due you for the Nos. I have recd.[received.]

I have heard of your New Jersey [Impetrum?]
but have not yet seen it. I picked up a violet
on the WHite Hills last summer which I thought
might be new, it resembles very much Y. palustris
also a little potentilla which I had seen before
but which I am not aware has been ever noticed
as an american species. P. Beanniana of [Persoon's?]
synopsis. Nuttall some years since suggested that
it might be this plant & showed me [?] specimens
of the Branniana which certainly were very much
like it. The specimens we then had were brought from
the same locality by Copley. I am sorry today that he
seems to have abandoned wholly his botanical studies
whether he will ever resume them I can't tell but hope
he may

Very sincerely yr[your] friend  BD Greene
        