
          [in pencil at upper right: (?April)]


 Sat. Morn 22. 1848


 Dear Doctor


 How shall I thank
 you enough for those plants? I
 expected 50 or 75 - there were
 over 500 of them! When I tell you
 that the last of them will be in
 its place in the herbarium before
 9 o'clock this morning you will see
 that I have not been idle. I shall
 not mix the duplicates with mine,
 Mr Browne has taken a part & I
 think the Lyceum & Leroy will take
 the others. The grasses ferns & Ericate
 genera gave me much trouble from
 changes of names. I was astonished
 to see a Flora so like our own. not 20
 new genera to my herbarium &
 most of them found here. The
 inequality of the addition struck me;
 for long spaces no plant was added
 other parts of my herbarium were
 actually swollen like a dried apple
 when soaked. I am more &
 more satisfied that such covers
 as you have are not the thing.
        