
          to correct my present package by your letter; & send [added: therefore]
it as is was prepared some weeks since, except that
a few plants have been thrown into the vacant leaves
by way of filling, these being well known are not
marked, they are sent for locality merely.
"Andropogon nutans" of the last port-folio has deciduous awns.
Helenium No. 1 is abundant. “foliis numerosis linearibus” will
define it among American species. H. No. 2 is doubtless
[Helenium] quadridentatum N. Some of the tubes are bifid. The lower leaves
are pinnatifid. It is quite unlike H. autumnale, never half so large,
covers roadsides & old fields. “Justicia didynamia [?]”. The 
name only is due to Mr [Luirtureis?]. I have had the plant and
considered undescribed for 3 or 4 years. The capsule is that
of Justicia. I can't give up my Acalypha. I think they will
ultimately be found distinct. I have always been uncertain
which these can be any question. These are two, both sent
before, which was virginica. We have several interesting species 
of this natural order but I have no specimens on hand. 
I have marked all the plants in my present package about 
which there can be any question. There are two, both sent 
before, which I believe you have not named; one “Corydales”
the other “undetermined A” which I beg you will notice.
If also you will have the goodness to glance over my
letters when writing again you will see several little
things which will assist me. Before the spring opens you
will probably have time to look over the old packages
and bring up the arrearages; & our correspondence is now
so far systematized by the plants already settled, that
what with all this & my increased means of procuring
and preserving plants I look forward to next summer
with high expectations of pleasure and advantage from
our intercourse.
        