
          Dr Cooley & myself think of offering to the Journal
 of Science a mere list of the plants found in this vicinity
 in which we shall acknowedge our very great obligations
 to yourself.


 Mr Nuttall is lecturing on botany in this vicinity
 but I have scarcely seen him. He is much engaged
 in mineralogy.


 I have recently found a new locality of the new
 fungus discovered by Dr Cooley & named by Schweinitz
 Gyropodium coccineum. The physiology of this
 plant is wonderful - more so than any thing I have
 met with in the cryptogamic department of botany.
 I have a drawing in explanation of it ^ [inserted: and] am almost
 induced to offer it to the Journal of Science, merely to
 explain the economy of the thing & not to attempt
 a scientific description.


 Yours respectfully & sincerely.-


 Edward Hitchcock


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