
          beg you therefore to pack up the contents of that
 "Box of Crypts. [Cryptogams?]", that is the Musci & [Jungenum?],
 and send to me in time to avail myself of that
 opportunity. Also the Daguerrotype for Sullivant.
 the pay for which I shall find some way of 
 transmitting to you. I would modestly insinuate that 
 the duplicate thereof, the writer would be glad to receive 
 as a Christmas present. 


 I can write to Pamphlin about Buckley's plants 
 on the 1st Jany [January]. But you must name to me 
 the minimum price at which they are to be sold.
 that will avoid future difficulties on all sides.


 I rummaged out those parcels for Knieskern &c. at W. [Wiley]
 & P. [Putnam] just as I left for Boston. The box containing them 
 has not been opened. 


 Early in the spring I will try to communicate with 
 Knieskern. 


 Yesterday I opened my two boxes of plants packed 
 at Asheville. The Buckleya's & Hamiltonias 
 came in excellent order, [crossed out: which] so that we 
 are sure of them. 


 I get on slowly with 
 my work, many interruptions.


 I have no explicit information to afford Dr. Gilman 
 as to the matter of illustration drawings made in Paris. 
 Dr. Wyman could doubtless afford me information to the 
 purpose, but he is at Richmond, Virginia. But 
 if extant engravings are to be copied, the thing can 
 be very well done in this country. 


 I have looked into Dict. Sci. Nat. [Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles?] but the derivation 
 of Pluchea is not there given. The genus was founded 
 in [Fransac's] Bulletin, or Bull. [Bulletin] Philomath [Philomathique?] , 1817, where
 possibly the derivation maybe mentioned. But it doubtless
        