
          My Torrey wishes me to go with some three or four hands
 on an exploring expedition which will probably require at
 least three or four days - When I got through with that
 business my next & main business shall be to get out
 Mr. Fields plants before anything else. - There was
 a man here from the vicinity of Atsion from whom I
 have gained considerable local information which will
 be of importance if I ever visit that region again.


 Though New Jersey has been a place of resort for botanists
 foreign and native for a Century; yet I cannot
 help thinking that there are yet many plants to be
 collected which have not yet been found within
 the limits of the State. - If proof were necessary to
 establish this assertion or rather conjecture, we might mention
 the circumstance of finding Carex flacca here 
 so abundantly after it had been lost ^ [inserted: or overlooked] for about 20 years
 and my new Rhynchospora Grayana; The Tofielda [Tofieldia?] &
 the Rudbeckia etc. found on our last Summer's trip _
 within the short space of two seasons. - I now feel
 a disposition to push farther my researches and collect
 what I can the present season as much as health and
 other circumstances will warrant and arrange as
 fast as I collect for I have now abundant room to
 do this if I may be permitted to [?] it. -


 I only need large quantities of paper to drive the
 busniness extensively - with a fair prospect of making
 many good specimens and them in good
 order too when they are made - I am sorry to state
 that my plants suffered greatly by dampness last year & that I lost very many

        