
          to your specimens or the extra N.E.[New England] species. The New England
species I have studied carefully almost all in the fresh state,
& I have doubtless have had excellent opportunities for
that purpose, as most of them grow in the immediate vicinity
of this place, & most of the remainder on the White Mountains.
If you are [Crossed out: you are] really anxious that I should attempt this,
pray let me know, & if as I suppose, you will think it
best that it should be done by those who have done the rest
without the expected assistance of other botanists, let me know
on receipt of this, & I will send in your specimens & my
own instantly by Harudrus express, which is a great blessing to Botanists.
With dried specimens incomplite[incomplete] & often badly preserved, I have little
patesince[patience], & no experience in their examination, those [Crossed out: probably]
[Crossed out: now form] which I know only in this state form probably now
more than half of the North American species of Ericaceae.

The notice of New Plants in
Hovey's journal was written in performance of an old promise,
& another notice was a wish to name some species [Crossed out: after] in honour
of Dr. Robbins, who so justly deserves it from me, & from all who
feel an interest in the Botany of New England. 12 years ago we had
nearly [?] quite] 20 species which we considered new, & before all the
remainder were named by other botanists, I wished to save one or two
for him. I hope out of the three, one or two will stick. It 
is curious that Archangelica peregrina & solidago glutinara? are first
of which I have had 15 years, & the other 12, should first be described
from Oregon plants by McHall - Arch. peregrina is what Bigelow
means? by Sigusticum actasifolicum in his last edition, sent him
by Jackerman without my knowledge from specimens I showed him [Added: growing].
[Crossed/rubbed out: ?] I do not know whether [?] [Added: Tuckerman] sent him the specimen
or the name only. I told him it might possibly be L. [actasif.?]
of Mich. which I had not then seen [Added: from a locality onthe sea shore], but I was always strongly
inclined to think  it a new species. Mich.'s locality is on the St. Lawrence.
I have got good and complete specimens, which I will send you.
It possibly may be a maritime vary.[variety] of A. [Crossed out: triguinata] atropurpurrea, but
I hope to settle that by cultivation.

This article was [Added: prepared &] written in great haste
in two days before the last day of writing for the month, & contains several
sins of commission as well as of omission, some being taken from old notes
without alteration or reexamination. Still I am glad I wrote it, as
it probably would never have been written unless on the spur of the

        