
          76 Rcd [received Sept. 15th
ansd [answered] Sept 30

Philadelphia Sept 12th 1834

My good friend,

Your letter of 10th is rec'd [received].  I really thought you
had neglected me.  Our intercourse is unlucky.  I did not
go to Princeton altho' [although] I was near as Trenton, because
I had no answer of yours & no plants with me to show 
you.  Yet I was eager to see you.  I had 1000 things to
tell you or to ask.  I thank you now for your letter
altho' [although] late.  We must contrive to meet.

I have made two Botanical & Oryctological
excursions this Summer.  I went to the Pines, thence
to Trenton & walked from hence along the Delaware to
Easton thru' [through] the mts [mountains], returning in the stage with a load.
My second journey was more extensive, to the Welsh
Mts [mountains] or Blue ridge.  W. [west] of Schuylkill, thence to the Kitatiny
Mts [mountains], and thru' [through] the Coal region of Schuylkill &
Lehigh as far as the Broad Mt: [mountain]  always on foot while in
the Mts. [mountains].  I was chiefly engaged in collecting fossil plants
of which I have made 3 boxes on the spots.  I have found
also a new locality for Trilobits & fossil shells on the
Lehigh.  In Botany I have the following new or 
doubtful Sp [species]

Mentha cinerea - Hairy spiked - Welsh mtn [mountain]
Clematis parviflora - Kitatiny Mts [mountains]
Trichostema rosea - Locust Mt [mountain]
Leptandra latifolia - fol oppos. ovatis
Asclepias albiflora - fol ellipt. amplis glabis

I have besides several rare plants.  Sonchus carolinianum [added:Wr]
which is also [Sonchus spinulosus] of Bigelow.  Adlumia
sagittaria angustif.  [Potamogeton heterophyllus] etc.

I have met a very singular var. [variety] of [Eupatorium perfoliatum]
termifolum, with ternate connate leaves.

I have found the Morea chinensis spontaneous in a 
pond of the Welsh mts [mountains], but naturalized of course.

I have me also the Podostemon at the head of Schuylkill
        