
          Recd. Oct.

Oriskany Sept. 28th 1840

Dear Sir!

After my return from the west I found
myself overrun with business, which, with my domestic
duties has until now prevented me from giving
you an account of my success. I send you
a suite of most of the plants collected on my
tour.

I wish you would give me the names
of those that are not namedand correct those that
are wrong as soon as may be convenient.

I have commenced a Catalogue of all the
plants I have found in the State the localities
time of collecting flowering and ripening of fruit
taking your Catalogue as a guide, and as
soon as I get the names of the plants now
sent I can go on and complete the same

{I obtained a single specimen of a species of
Geranium this Summer in June, which is different
from any I have seen. It was past flowereing when it
was collected & had a few ripe seeds, which I planted
& from which I hope to obtain good specimens nest
season. The plant appears nearest like G. erianthum D.C.
so far as I could determine from the too far advanced
stage of the plant particularly, "peduncles short & crowded"
I noted [effaced] a particular description of the specimen such
as it was, on the label, but both are mislaid and
I cannot find it at present. I intend to send it
to you with this package I have 3 or 4 [thrifty?] young
[ons?] 2 or 3 months old. It shows itself different form my
G. caroliniana, in sending up a stem as it grows up
whilst G. Caroliniana I have 6 months old (a thrifty plant)
has as yet only radical leaves.}

I have all the Carices
of your Catalogue except the following (which I
would like to obtain) Carex dioica L. C. saxatilis L.
C. striata Michx. C. tetanica C. Careyana, Dewey. C. digitalis
C. subulata Mich. C. aristata. Could you help me to
procure a few of [added: each of] these to fill out my suit of State
carices? Those that are found here I have collected
ingreat numbers of C. squarrosa I have about 100 species
collected in my Western tour near Bath Stuben Co.
        