
          Recd. [Received] Oct. 21st.
Ansd. [Answered] Decr. [December] 30th

21 Regent St. London
Sept. 4, 1834

My dear Dr. Torrey

I have sent to Dr. Boott for you a good
parcel of some plants which I hope will be acceptable
to you, and the ninth part of Bentham's Labiata [Labiatarum genera et species].
I have also enclosed in a box to Prof. [Lewis Caleb] Beck of Albany
a copy of my Nixus (not Nexus) Plantarum, which
has not the German botanists all in a stir.

I am now proceeding with the 4th part of
my Orchidae [The genera and species of orchideous plants], but I am not [farther?] for
want of some American species, and I am
induced to put you to the expense of a bother, less
to announce to you the [alm?] separately than to
beg you to send me or get me if it be got, specimens 
of the Orchideae named on the other list. 
Until they come I am paralyzed. Some of your correspondents
        