
          This  season I have paid a considerable [insert: attention] to the sessile
flowered Trillia growing in this vicinity — & am inclined
to the opinion that there are from 15 to 20 species &
as many varieties — My investigations have been confined
principally to a portion of alluvial soil bordering on the
Olentangy river about a mile & a half from this village,— it
embraces about half a square mile of surface & is very
level & rather thinly timbered — I chose this spot both
on account of its uniformity & its productive charactor-
With regard to the pedunculate flowered Trillia I think
there  is great confusion — It appears to me that most
of our botanists attempt to crowd under the name of
T. erectum two or three species neither of which agrees
with T. erectum of Linn. Also T. grandiflorum is made
to embrace several distinct species — I intended to
forward to you at this time my descriptions etc. which
were drawn from living specimens, & to accompany the
same with specimens — but time does not perment, &
upon reflection I suppose it will answer if they are
received within a year from this time — Next season
if circumstances permit I shall examine more particularly
the pedunculate species growing in this vicinity.
Please inform me whether you have a great variety
of specimens of this genus— My collection embraces
but few besides such as are found in this vicinity.
I have this season noticed a species of Decodon growing
in a swamp two miles east of this village which appears
to me to differ in some respects from D. verticillatum
It almost exclusively occupies about two acres of the swamp

        