
          Cincinnati Nov. 19 1839

My dead sir

At the same time
that I have the pleasure to acknowledge
my obligations to you for the kindness &
promptness with which you have attended
to my requests; you will perceive
that I have placed myself in the way
of being still more indebted by sending
quite a long list of plants, with a ?
appended to most of them. The greater
portion belong to our more difficult &
unsettled genera & while I shall be
much gratified to have them authentically
named by you. I have some hope
the specimens may be of service in your
researches & comparisons of various species.

With respect to Quercus heterophylla, I have
as yet seen but the one tree & through a botanical friend know of a second. We have not
Q. phellos near us, probably not within the state.
Q. imbricaria is not abundant in our vicinity
but north of us it is in great plenty. I have
observed it pretty colsely & in no instance have
I seen the leaves indented.

The specms. of Oxalis heretofore sent No. 44 & 45 are
quite distinct in habit with us. The male flower 
end branching one is abundant in cultivated
ground where I have never found the more
simple & large flowered species. This grows in
thickets & open woods. I have not observed it to
throw out branches & appearance a different from
later in the season. I have always thought
here they were distinct species but was ignorant
of which was Stricta or Corniculata.

I would have been pleased to have had it
in my power to sent more & better specms. of
Lobelia (No. 141). You will [added: find] the character of the 
Calycanthus same as in specm. 48 heretofore sent.
        