
          [And?]
 Washington [?] Morks Clinton 60. Pa. Sep, 19, 1843
 Dr. John Torrey


 Dear Sir,
 In the commencement
  of August I left a package of plants in Philadelphia
  with a friend of mine who expected to be
  in Princeton in a few days, and he promised to
  leave the package where you would get it. He
  informed me that he did not go, but left the
  package at the New York package office in Philadelphia
  (in [?] stash a few [?] below [Walnuts?]) with
  directions to have it left at Princeton.


 I have found but few plants this season than I did
  not [meet?] last season. I have however found
  a few, among which I may mention the Campanula
  rotundifolia [W?] Rus aromatica [?] both of which
  grow on the "barren limestone ridges." Decodon verticillatus
 Lythrum alatum? I think these plants grow in a marsh 
 on the Bald Eagle [Creek?] & Rhammus alnifolius in
 wet rocky places. About one week since as I was riding
 along the river above Ferrandsville I found a 
 single speciment of a plant that I take to be the
 Lepachys pinnata but it was in such bad condition
 by the time I arrived home that I could not positively 
 conclude what it was, notwithstanding I had the flora
 of North America to examine it [?] any plant that
 I meet with in [fit?] condition for examination I can  
 acertain if it is in the flora since I have become acquainted
        