
          I shall be glad to accept if I visit New York, but as already
 said I shall not leave home, neither for the North, nor for 
 Cleaveland [Cleveland], nor for the region of my delightful excursions
 the last two summers, the mountains of N [North] & S. [South] Carolina.
 Lundgren will I suppose sweep everything before him, and
 leave nothing not even a Rhus, to be discovered. I have heard
 of Lundgren at Asheville, Black Mountain &c, but have not
 had a line from him since I put him in the cars and bought
 his ticket for him. His box containing stock of paper for drying
 came near being left. It was too big, and rough looking
 to pass as a gentleman's baggage, and too late in arriving 
 to be stowed in freight cars, but I finally persuaded them
 after some demur, to take it as baggage. If he runs out of
 money again, or gets into any trouble, I suppose I shall soon
 hear from him; trouble is a wonderful sharpener of the recollection.


 As I am not coming North, I cannot bring on the Asclepias
 parviflora pods as you desire. My specimens were collected
 in 1835 in the swamps of the Sautee below Columbia, and I 
 have never seen it since. On examining my herbarium I cannot
 find either pods or plant, and I think I must have given
 them all to yourself or to Gray in 1836 at the time of our
 first acquaintance. Tell me if you recollet anything of it. I
 have none now to send, nor have I been able to obtatin any specimens
 or pods among my botanical acquaintance here. If I
 run up to Columbia for a few days during the vacation I will 
 look again for it, as also for Aster mirabilis which I found

        