
          For the books you sent receive my warmest
thanks. Is it not curious that Hooker
tho' so exact, in general, should have
mistaken my Cornus grandis, a stout tree
60 or 70 ft. high with an even bark like a
birch and a 6-leaved involucrum for the
C. Florida [Cornus florida], but, in the [sequel?], you will find
more examples of the same kind, as 2
Cimicifugas, [given?] as old, are new sps. [species]. The
Aquilegia canadensis is A. formosa [Aquilegia formosa] of Siberia
&c &c &c

I mean to visit New York and see
you as early in the spring, as I can. At
present we are in the midst of an artic
winter here, wh [which] after two winters successively
at the Sandwich Islands feels severe enough.
My respects to Mrs. Torrey, and all enquiring
friends.

Yours truly, and much obliged

Thos. Nuttall
        