
          Among the specimens I [added: have] sent you, I think
no. 141 is Betula rubra (Ohio banks. rare)
127. Aspidium bulbiferum. 143. Lechea minor?
No. 79 has the habit of Solidago rather than
of Cacalia. Flowers yellow, root perrenial. Grows
abundantly on a wet prairie two miles south 
of Columbus, the only place where I have
met with it. No. 122. Aster undescribed. Dr. Short
informs me that Dr. Boot [Boott] of London, proposes
to call is Aster shortii.

When you send me specimens, please
direct them to Robert Bucchannan
Cincinnati, and commit them to
Oliver S. Caldwell.
care of
T. T. Bunnell & Co. 
New York.

Yours truly
J. L. Riddell.

P.S. Mr. Bucchannan assures me  that
Mr. Caldwell will forward a package 
by some private opportunnity
I mean to send you specimens of a 
better size hereafter.

J.L.R.

        