
          the Arenaria Peploides in flower, and gave me two specimens
which are at your service.

I cannot refrain from expressing
my regret that a correspondence from which the liberal and polite
manner in which you have received my communications assures me
of so much pleasure and advantage, should suffer so sudden and long
an interruption. Hoping that every good fortune and success will
attend you in your proposed expedition, I remain

Your, sincerely,
Wm. [William] Oakes

John Torrey, M.D.
        