
          Recd Apr 1st

Dr. John Torrey, NYK
ansd

Philadelphia 30 March 1836

My good friend.  I was rather uneasy at your long
silence, when I have rec'd [received] at once thru P.O. y [your] two letters 19th &
24th [illegible].  It was as I expected.  Your chemical lect. [lecture] take up all
your time in Winter.  I thak you for all your Bot. news, and
the parcel of Texas plants.  These have been very tantalizing to me
being without names, not even the Genus!  I cannot make out the G.
of some without destroying the parts, which I will not do.  I have
not Dr. Hookes companion to refer to.  How shall I do?  Will you
send me the names herafter ?  Referring to the Nos.

Those plants are Duplicates of your duplicates, and this in poor
condition.  How you would reject plants sent by me in such a state?
Small, broken, unnamed, without the genus!  without fruit often.
How you speak of my Carices from Mandan collected by Bradbury?
These Carices were sent for your examination, not to be broken nor destroyed,
nor thrown by.  They belonged to my florula mandanensis autikon
and are pointed in it.  They had my names.  It was for you to verify or
rectify, but not destroy & neglect.  But you forgot all this!

I shal lay by the Texas plants, since they are not to be named
nor described, waiting for Dr. H. names.  They appear to me almost
all N Sp [new species] & different from any & those described by me in florula texemis
I can only make out Bellis integrifolia & Juniperus barbadensis
yet even the first appears distinct by ciliate leaves.  Pray let Dr. Hooker
know that I have published 30 new plants of Texas both in Atlantic
Journal & Herbar. Rafinesq!  But Texas must have 2000 Sp of
plants, those 70 of mine & Hooker are but 2 fragments of the novelties
of that section of country.  Now given up to war like Florida.
Conrad was to go to Texas to collect shells & fossils (besides plants
for me) but is prevented by the War.

I am still promised plants from the South, but never get them.
A collector has promised many from Georgia, one in Carolina is going
to Europe & has not time to send me plants.  Dr. Groom has not answered
me....  Thus I am always expecting... I shall have to wait too
long, and am preparing my Suplemental Flora of North America
without them.  You can help me but little, since you are yourself
too much engaged.  As to your Flora it will be many years coming
and after all no general flora, but only Torrey's flora, as Michaux's
        