
          & as keen a collector as ever set [Crossed out: his] foot on the soil of America.

I was very sorry not to see you when you were in Boston.
I hope you will come again soon, the journey is very short now.
I wish some of your Boston friends would invite you to come &
& deliver a Lowell lecture course.

I am anxious to talk
with you about the N. York Mts. They make a glorious show
from Lake Champlain, & plainly magnificent themselves to be 
much superior to the Green Mts. also in full view.
Camel's Rumb, Mansfield &c.[etc.][Crossed out: The Lord ?] Of "Mount Marcy" this ought to
be the law, that all breeches torn on that mountain in pursuit of the "spoils" shall be mended
at the expense of the state.

Arnica montana was first
discovered by Pickering. Nuttall's specimens were given
him as were his specimens of Potentilla minima by
Dr. Holmes of Maine, who was posterior to P. & myself.
Nuttall showed them to me, & told me who sent them, & that
he did not find them himself. The curious vary.[variety] of V. oxycoccus
without rays was first found by Robbins. The Galium by myself.

Please write me & tell me whether your next No. is printed,
& to what address to send the specimens.

Yours truly,
Wm.[William] Oakes]

I [Added: find I] have lost this mail, & will take the opportnity to combine the
letter.

I like your Flora very much, it is most respected a
model, & your opinions & my own in respect to varieties in general
almost exactly coincide. Many questions of the kind can, however, only
be decisively settled by raising a considerable number of [Added: individuals] [Crossed out: plants] from [Added: the] seed
[Crossed out: in ?] of cultivated plants.

        