
          Manchester, N.J. Sept. 3rd 1845


 My Very Dear Friend!


 Mr. Rowell left here
 early on Monday last and I had not time to
 prepare any thing to send - Besides he had
 a box of books to carry for Mr Huntington.


 I leaft early on Monday morning for
 Barnegat on a botanical tour but the boat
 in which I was to sail had left before
 I got to the landing and I had to 
 content myself with botanizing on the 
 Salt Meadows of Goodluck Point - where
 I laid in a good stock of good grasses
 and a few other choice plants. I returned
 home last evening late & tired and therefore
 unable again to make out a little plant
 which I found growing on the borders
 of a marshy swamp nearly or quite fresh.


 I also inclose a small part of the top of
 the Melanthaceous plant collected about halfway
 between Manchester & Freehold - I did not 
 succeed well in preserving it - Brought it home
 late one saturday evening and had to leave
 [there?] till Monday morning - The radical leaves
 were very much dried up from the great drought. 

        