
          Dr Torrey N Yk [New York]
Recd. Oct 29th
ansd. Nov 2nd

Philadelphia 20th Oct 
1835

My good friend
I wrote you last month when I rec'd [recieved] your late plants
at Dobson's.  I have no answer to it yet, nor to my letter of the 
Spring, with this you owe me answers to 3 letters.

Having met a private opportunity I write again, and send
you some plants for examinat. [examination] and naming.  I went as I proposed
into the Pine barrens, but late, beg. [beginning] of Oct [October] yet I found many fine
things in bloom.  I came within 10 miles of Monmouth.

I could not find the Gentiana angustif. this plant has
always escaped me.  You never told me the precise spot where it
grows.  But instead I found a new var. [variety] or Sp [species] of the genus which
I call Gentiana tracthiloma.  Caule humile, scabriuscule
lubangul. rubio pauciflore 1-5 fl - fol. oblongis margine scabro.
Is it the G. Umbricaulis of Schweinitz?  I send you one, the
Var biflora.  I found also the pretty Polygonum articulatum
never seen before even dry!  but mine has foliis filiformi, not liniari
is it right?  I found plenty of it in full bloom on 8th October in the
Cedar hills sands.  I send you 3 but if you want 12 large specimens
I can send them in exchange, as I collected 40 specimens.  I have
also 3 varities 1 gracila, fol. tenuis flori albescens 2 procumbens
3 ranosissimum.  I send you 22 doubtful plants of the 
Pines, which pray name for me or give your opinion & return
them, except such as you may want to keep, but [crossed out:they] [added:then] refer to
them in the letter.  I send also 24 plants from Central Alleghany
for same purpose, but cant send my Napea tomentosa being
too large for the paper & my friend [crossed out:cant take] the bearer.

I send you the singular N.G. of aquatic Lichen!  My Lepidrolithus
give me your opinion.  it cant be a tremella, since it dries
in a  crustaceous form.  When fresh it is of consistence of Lichen pulmmaria 
& islandicus or a little more fleshy.

Now, the same friend who takes this, will stay a week in N Yk [New York]
& then return.  he may bring me any plants you may have for me. 
and also the returned plants.  My Carexides from Mandans, etc.
        