
          I earnestly agin ask you for the Gentiana angustifolia etc
as I want to have a complete set of Amer [American] Gentiana.  Nay send me all
[Gentiana rubricaulis], yr [your] [Gentiana pulmonaria], [Gentiana linearis], [Gentiana ochroleuca] & the difft [different]
White sp. from Florida, blossoming in winter says Silliman's journal
also the large white flower sp. from Mt. Alleghanies etc.  Nay all the sp
you can spare of the genus.  If you cant [crossed out:send] [added:give] them lend
them to me as you offered for my examination & send them by
Mr. Bruth!  you will find him at Mr. Peers confect, Willam Str.

Lend me also your collection of G. Prunus, including Padus &
Cerasus.  I have been trying for years to make a monograph of them
You offered last Spring thus to lend me the General I might wasnt for
My study of peculiar Genera or families.  Now I call on you
for this favor.  The other Genera I wish also to be sent, would be -

[start column one]

+ Lonicera
Euphorbia
+Drosera
+Lactuca

[start column two]

Aster
Solidago
Helianthus
Houpalyce

[start column three]

Polygonum
Hypericum
Lobelia
+Gratiola

[start column four]

Potamoget
Ranunculus
Anemone
+ Allium etc

[end columns]

But those I want most after Gentiana & Prunus are those marked +
at present.  Remember my former desiderata - also.

Remember to tell me what you made of the little unknown shrub
of Cedar bridge in Pine barrens.

I send you inclosed [added:with plants] 2 copies of my Index autikon Botanikon.
My N. Sp. [new species] are thus offered for sale.  It is for those who want them
to pay for them.

I am now myself able & willing to buy plants & I wish you
will sell me or get some one to sell me 200 or 300 plants of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia & the South.  I will pay what you may
deem fair.  The sooner the better as I will be engaged this
Winter on my suplemental [supplemental] flora of N. America.  I want
most is the first all the monocotyles, not grasses, but Liliaceous,
Orchidea, etc of the South.  Next the above genera & so on.

My work on sustability is not yet out, perhaps wont be,
till 1st Janry [January] next.  I have begun to print at sometime my
first volume of History of the American Nations.

Thus I am never idle.  Nay I find myself full of zeal &
ardor.  Did you see  my paper on the Chinese nations in the
Knickerbocker?  Nuttal spends the Winter on the Sandwich
Ids [Islands].  That is another field & not America.

I am truly as usual

Your old friend

C. S. Rafinesque

        