
          My Dear Friend                                         Lexington (Ky) 10th febry [February] 1820

I have rec'd in due time yr [your] favor of Dec. last which I shall now
answer by a private conveyance.  I have made up for you a fine parcel of
plants & other trifles which will be sent on up the River next month.  As I
know your fondness for grapes, I send you a specimen of nearly all the grapes
collected in this State, most of them without names as I have not yet determined
many of them, but they are numbered & I request that you will study
them & send me your opinion on each referring to the numbes.  I hope
you will find some interesting ones among them, for instance my N. G. [new genus] Diarina
the Festuca diandra of Michaux etc.  I shall send you all others of the [illegible]
Miegia arundinacea which make good bread & thos. of the Nelumbium
pentapetulum which are excellent to eat, & almost all the plants you ask.
You will receive this box through Philad. & the hands of Mr. Thomas F.
Leaning, Mr. Clifford's friend.  Any thing for me must be left with him &
Mr. Collin knows it, by which means they are forwarded along with
Mr. Clifford's things, & to his [crossed out:illegible] [added:care] which is safer perhaps.

I congratulate you on your chemical discoveries & hope to see them soon
appear in print under your name.  You ought to have remembered that I
have told you long ago, that I had undertaken a labour on the Tuckaleves
of America & had observed several species 2 or 3 of which are sclerotium,
& your Scl. giganteum [Schlerochaetium giganteum] one of them, another is a N.G. [new genus] Gemmularia, it differs
from sclerotium by soft thin covering & reproduction by gemmula outside
1 or 2 others are as real Tubers, & several are tubereles of Apios, & other leguminous
plants.  We have near Lexington great quantity of that
rare mineral Carbonate of Barytes, do you want specimens of it?

Your Hippuris americana is probably my Hippuris polyphylla
flora ludoviciana!  why a new name?

Bridel's Methodus muscerum is not to be got probably in America else
I should like to have it.

I have given long ago your address to my friend Wm Swainson of Liverpool
who will write you, he is a zealous naturalist, botanist & entomologist, his
father, Collector of the Customs is also zealous.  You will do well to cultivate
his correspondence & you may exchange with him insects & plants.

I have sent you by mail one of the prodromus of a new scientific
journal to be published at Bruxelles by 3 great naturalists in French &
on a large scale under the name of Annales generalis des Science Physiques.
Present it to the Lyceum & let your friends notice it.  I have preparing 12
memoirs for that Journal, which shall be send next March such as 1st a
Monography of American Roses 33 species! & 28 varieties.  My new species
        