
          Recd & And May 6th

Columbus Geo. April 10th 1834

Dear Sir

Enclosed is a plant which  have been studying some time,
but as yet have been unable to identify. I first found it some four years since
on an island three or four miles above town, afterwards, the same season in
one other locality. After that I lost it entirely until this season when I found
it growing sparingly on the spot where I first met with it. I have only seen
the flower, the fruit has thus far escaped me, it has been in flower more than
a month and the one I send you is as far advanced as any I could find
I gathered it eight or ten days since and it has not had time to dry. I 
presume you can determine its leading characters without any remarks
of mine. With all my efforts I have been unable to find time to get out to the
only known locality of the "Iris" some four or five miles distant, so as to get
you some roots. I will during my summer leisure mask some plants in such a
way as to enable any one I may send to get them and thus place the matter beyond
the reach of the contingency upon which it has hitherto depended [?]
my having leisure to go myself at the proper season. The Borya is not yet in
bloom, being near my residence I can and do visit it often, to prevent if
possible, its escaping me this season as it did the last.

[not signed, but evidently from
Hugh M. Neisler]
IJ.
        