
          You wish me to inform you what I am
 about.


 I have left the school as not only
 unprofitable but as occupying too much of
 my time, that ought to be spent to better avantage.


 This week the weather has been
 so exceptionally cold that little could be done to
 advantage.


 I am going at my plants again
 as soon as the weather becomes a little more
 settled.


 You mention having noticed a
 strange form of Gentiana crinita and ask
 where the specimen was collected.


 I found it either on the wet rocks of Niagra Falls
 or at Irondugnoit Mill about 12 miles East of
 Rochester on my Western tour in 1840.


 The specimens are from one or the other of these
 localities, since I have never found it anywhere
 else.


 The G.  quinqueflora I found abundantly
 near Chittenango during the same trip


 I have the promise of driving Mr. Torrey's
 team [crossed out: occasionally] up and down occasionally
 which will enable me to pick up plants
 at a distance from Manchester.


 I have no paper yet suitable to print
 labels on but expect some soon Mr. Torrey has
 promised to send me some if he has not forgotten
 it in his hurry & press of business.


 Believe me truly yours,


 P.D.Knieskern
        