
          Augusta, Hancock Co., Illinois April 26th 1845

My Dear Sir,

Last fall (in Septr. [September]) I sent you a small parcel 
of plants & suppose you must have got before this. Among them 
were several about which I was uncertain as to their true name.  
Such of them as you are certain about their right names I would be glad to know. 
Phlox reptans? I can not certainly decide from specimens of P. divaricata [Phlox divaricata] from various 
quarters in my possession. I sent directed to N.Y. [added: in a letter to you] in Nov. a grass. Windsoria?
I have not heard anything from you about any of these things. 
I now send enclosed a plant I found about a week ago here for the first 
time, growing on overflowed bottoms with Erigenia bulbosa, & should call it 
Chaerophyllum procumbens, if the specimens I have from Ohio were not so unlike 
it; so that I think it may be something else, the specimen is rather young
but the fruit is somewhat advanced. Perhaps you can tell what it is 
at the first sight & I would be glad to know.

There are a few plants credited to N. York that I would like to obtain.
Does Dr. Crawe still live in Jefferson Co. or any other botanist near that quarter
that I could get the rare ones from that region by way of exchange ?
I expect to send you another parcel of plants after a while.
Has your 4th no. of 2d vol. of the N.A. [North American] Flora been published yet? The first no. 
after the Compositae?

Please write soon.
Yours truly
S B Mead

P.S. Whatever foreign plants you have for me (as you wrote in your letter of Aug. 12th ult [ultimo])
I would be glad of, & I will send you good specimens of rare plants as I can find
opportunity. Does Dr. Holmes still live in Montreal? I want to get a few
more plants from Canada & as it is uncertain about Mr. Macrae sending me 
more, his father wrote me that he was deranged. Perhaps someone else
in some part of Canada who would be glad to get western plants. I have some 
duplicates of plants not growing here for exchange.

Is there any way I could get a few of the rare plants credited to Mts of Virginia
N. Carolina and south? I have all I can get from Mr. Curtis. Are any to be had
of Mr. Carey or Dr. Gray? From whom can I obtain any plants from Georgia
& Eastern & Southern Florida? or S. Carolina?
        