
          NewBurgh Oct 3rd 1845


 Dear Sir


 I received you kind letter of Sept 28th on Monday and
 have delayed answering it that I might give you some more certain
 information concerning the Lythrum sent to you.


 I have traced it for eight miles on each side of the Wallkill
 and there cannot be the slightest doubt of its being indigenous.
 The phraseology of the locality should be somewhat corrected for
 it seems to prefer growing where the water is one of two feet
 deep, and still, to the meadows on the margin of the stream.
 Some bushes roughly measured were full nine feet in height
 with stout much branched stems So abundantly does it grow
 that I cannot but wonder how it has been overlooked solong
 Mr. John W. Knevels I beleive transplanted some to his garden
 last summer and Dr. Stevenson was shown a specimen sometime
 ago from a garden in the village as he told me yesterday. so
 I have not the "right of discovery."


 I was let to call that Nasturtium, hispidum from the length
 of the silicles in a specimen of N. fedurtne given me by
 Dr Englemann, they are more than twice as long and much
 narrower. Does it vary so much?


 Enclosed I send a specimen of the leaves—unfortunately I have
 nother else — of the "white fruited" strawberry it is perhaps but
 a variety of Fragania Canadensis though a constant one. I have
 found it in three separate localities miles asunder. It bears
 transplanting well, retaining all its characters, excepting the berry is 


  
        