
          but not in bloom.  Have you well seen the flowers & do
you find Michaux acct [account] correct?  My examination in the
Ohio of the flowers differs somewhat from him: but are
they not 2 or 3 Sp [species] blended?  Is really our Eastern Sp [species]
the same as the Ohio Sp [species]?  I think there are 2 there!

What Quercus is the Rock Oak of the Allegh. [Allegheny] Mts [mountains]
Leaves micronate & thus serrate
unequaly [unequally]  - pale smooth beneath.

What Populus is the white poplar of the Allegh [Allegheny] Mts [mountains]
with large, cordate leaves, denticulate tomentose whitish
beneath, but not candicans as in [Populus candicans].

What uncertainty yet in Botany?  Mr. Duram lately
having studied the herbals of Muhlenberg, Nuttal etc
Schweinitz for the genera Hedysarum & Lespedeza found
them quite differently named by them!  You will have
plenty to do merely to settle these synonymies.  What
wonder then that I a real observer of plants in nature
& not in Books or Herbals only, should have my own views.

I have not yet seen Gray's grasses, how should I while
travelling & collecting.  I wished he had gone to the 
South to collect for us as you intimated.  But I will
take his grasses as I promised you or he will take plants
or Books in exchange.  I repeat that I have 500 Sp [species]
& 5000 specimens of grasses & cypes, one half of which
are undertermined, & contain many rare & new species.
I have in my late tour got 2 or 3 Paspalum unknown to
me.  I have also many fine grasses of the South sent me
by Elliot with his names.  All these are at your
disposal or for exchange, as I long ago told you , when
you chose to take them.  I once promised you to give
them all to you, if you procured me the sale of my
other plants.  I repeat this offer again.

If you go in the Pines this fall, get me Gentiana angustifolia
& other rare fall plants.  I want to go there for them
myself if I can.  Why not come here at once with Dr. Gray
& then I will go with you.  The Pines are only 14 miles due W [west]
from this.  I cannot go now to New York owing to the cholera
& this place is much nearer the Pines, if we mean to go there
        