
          Edinburgh March 10th 1821

Dear Sir

I am afraid you will have imagined by this
time that I have been wanting in the attention your kind communication 
deserved this however has not been the case 
I answered your letter on the 10th of Novber [November] 1820 & enclosed
it in a parcel of plants which a friend promised to convey
for me to New York.  through his forgetfulness to my surprise
I heard the other day that it has not yet been sent— however
it shall not longer remain thus stationary—you will find
in it about 100 species of British Musci —some not good specimens
but my stock is as then very low & rather than not send
some species, I sent the fragments I had left. but if you
will after reviewing them name those of with I have sent
indifferent specimens—or such as of which you wish for a
farther supply. I may probably have many of them in
the course of a few months. Besided the Musci you will
recieve some Phanogamous plants & a few ferns.

In my last letter I mentioned the chief botanical news
of the day  nothing of much consequence has since occured.
D. Hooker, I think I noticed, is writing a Flora Scotica which will
appear next month, at the end will be a recapitulation of geneia &
        