
           And [June?]

Utica May 23rd 1837

Dear Sir.

I wrote you a letter about a
week since requesting to know in what way I
could be servicable to you in collecting specimens
of plants etc. Since I wrote that letter
I had an opportunity to examine the report
of the Geological Survey, published by the Legislature
during their last Session. From this
report I could in some degree learn what
might [crossed out: in some degree] be of use, in collecting
materials, which might be both interesting and
important, to those individuals whose immediate 
province it is, to make the necessary inquiry,
enjoined on them by their appointment, But 
of the plans you have [added: formed] for the Season I wish
to be more particularly informed if consistent

I have kept a memorandum of nearly all 
the plants I have seen in blossom this season
with remarks on their Habitat and their peculiarities
where they differ from the descriptions,
in the [?] books; I have made
several excursions, in various directions from this
city and have collected liberally of all the
rarer plants within any reach.

I have spent 
two days in the Oneida Lake region and on
the Pine Plains between Wood and Fish Creek.
I have a list of all the plants collected in this
excursion which may be referred to at any time.

among the most important are some 40 or 50 
specimens of Oryzopsis asperifolia, [Millium?] [fungens?]
about 300 specimens - Carex longirast [longirostrata?].  limosa, [pubescens?] 
umbellata, paniculata & several others.

It is
too early to collect specimens, of the Carex genus, very
few having come to maturity sufficiently, for an
herbarium. I found a very interesting little violet,
on the Pine Plains, where I had probably passed
fifty or an hundred times before
        