
          Red. [Received] Augt. [August] 13th
Ansd 14th

Cincinnati July 22 1839

Dear Sir

Your letter of May 24th was 
received in due time & I reurn you my
thanks for your kind attentions. Your
time must be fully occupied & the calls
upon it more fequent than desirable
in many instances. I was therefore gratified
to find you had carefully looked over
& noted your opinions of my specimens.
When the unascertained numbers numbers are saisfactorily 
made [?] I shall hope to hear
what they are. The specm. No. 2 Corallorhiza
I have though disctinct from C. odontorhiza 
The latter we have here, it flowers in [?]
The former (No. 2) always flowers about the
middle of May & apopeard to me to be distinct.
I thought it approached C. verna.
I was quite elated about the oak (No. 22)
I hope it may be entitled to rank as a distinct
member in its ancient & honorable
family of No. 18 [?]. I
had a specm. handed to me by Mr. Lampley 
I had informed him of your wish to have
specimens & when he brought me this he
told me that he had sent you specimens.
Mr. Lampley has summoned from Urbana to this city
of the other specimens you wished to have. 
I have sent all except Rumex No. 10 in
flowers - it flowers in Augt. & I have no specm.
in that state. Of some I have not sent
as many or as good specms. as I wished
but others shall be sent thereafter if yhou
will let me know you want them. I am glad
to see C. arida brought into the ranks again
Beside the two species of Rumex No. 10 & 11
we have only R. crispus & R. obtusifolius, species 
of which are sent.

The packet containing the plants in 
the [?] list is sent to the care of
        