
          specimen of Leiophyllum in your herb.[herbarium] of which I wish you
would send me on[one?], as I [have none?]. WHen I first made up
my herb.[herbarium] in 1821, 22, I fastened all my plants to paper,
but I [have?] since took them all off, & cannot endure 
the system on any account. [Added: It is] bad for ixn. for preservation, & a
great trouble every way. I am fastening the label to the plant
the neglect of which has been the cause of many mistakes.

I wish you would send me the Nos. of the 4th. Vol.[Volume] of the
N. York Lyceum, which ought to be sold in Boston at
Little & Browns regularly.
With respect, Yours truly,
Wm.[William] Oakes

Do you think that our Erythraea Pickeringii can be
E. ravorissima? The leaves of ours are not short oval.
Except the very earliest & it grows on the sea
shore, below High water mark, the other [is?] the inland
[?] of Europe? [Crossed out: Has] Do you not find specn.[specimens in your collection
of Potamgeta Robbinsii?

To John Torrey, M.D.
30 McDougal St.
New York
        