
          our herbaria are still very poor in the plants 
of that region. Pray return me the duplicate
copy of no. VI of Flora Bor. [Boreali] Americana. I 
will send you the index if you have not the 
right one; but by a stupid blunder of the 
publisher (& he paid dear for his pains too) the 
index does not contain the species in the 
last few pages, which he insisted upon
coming into the first vol. A full index in 
the 2d vol. will set all this right. Have 
you not recieved [received] from me Part VII? I shall 
hail the arrival of your work on the Cyperaceae.
Boott cannot be expected to do anything 
among your Carices, but I assure you there
is an ample field for him amongst those
of the Old World & some that need to be described 
of S. [South] America. I am sure you &
Gray will have done yours admirably. I hope 
you have given some figures. You 
tell me Drummond's Appalachicola [Apalachicola] sarracenia
is a new one. I beseech you to let me 
have flowering specimens. For I have seen 
only leaves. I think if you get possession 
of Texas you will have a quantum [suff.?]
of slavery & [popary?] too. Many thanks for 
making Mr. Leonard known to me, & very many
more for introducing to our acquaintance Dr. & 
Mrs. [Tisk?]. I have rarely met with people in 
whom I have felt more interested than in them.
Pray send us more equally good specimens of 
your countrymen & countrywomen. My compliments 
to Dr. Gray & congratulations on his appointment 
at the museum. Tell me about Nuttall &
his discoveries & his journeyings. Trinius was prevented
from coming here as he expected to do. But
the good [Tiscker?] & his amiable lady have been spending
        