
          On casting my eye hastily over the plants I have now the 
pleasure to recieve [receive] from you I find that Verbena rigens
is V. stricta, Vent. [Ventenat] & Hook. [Hooker] in Comp B.M. [Companion to the botanical magazine]. Your 
"Psoralea brachiata?" is not (as you [added: rightly] suspect) mine, but
a very southern plant which I also have from Texas. 
What I formerly gave you I apprehend as "Psor. esculenta" 
is my brachiata. The true P. esculenta
I now have from you & from Texas. Your Ionidium
parviflorum is not so but I take it to be 
Ion polygalaefolium [Ionidium polygalifolium] [added: Vent. et] H. & K. [added: Is it stipulaceum Nutt.? I have not looked.] Your Pentstemon
without a name is P. coboea, foliis angustioribus.

Would not Rich of London be a good & respectable bookseller 
for your Flora? & has he not connection with the booksellers
at N. [New] York? He should have advertisements sent to 
the botl. [botanical] periodicals &c. My father joins with me in affectionate 
regards & good wishes to you & all your family. 
Believe me ever your sincerely attached friend 
W.J. Hooker.

Dr. Torrey
Professor of Chemistry 
& Botany &c &c &c
New York.
        