
          The most perplexing are such as belong to genera unknown to me,
& doubtful by habit or lack of fruit etc.  You might easily have saved
me that trouble by putting the genus, which you probably know.
I can always make out the Species when I know the genus, or make it
a new Sp. [species]  I don't think that this parcel contains many such N Sp
but I have detected a few, a new Apios (3 had 3 already) a new Sp
of my N.G. Vernasolis att J.  I should like to know the synonym of
this if any.  A new Crotalaria, [Crotalaria angustofolia] with long linear
leaves & long pods, a new Vicia, etc, etc.  I'll state them all at 
another time.  I suppose you have all the same plants already, then
I should like to have your names for the new ones.  You labelled a
few grasses which was well, but left some unlabeled of little use to me

Don't forget to send more Texian plants as you promised, &
those of S. [south] Florida, the Keys, etc.

The typical specimens of my Suplemental flora will certainly
be arranged by genera & orders.  Most are already, except those obtained
within one year.  The very reason I want to sell these types, is that
they may be consulted in Europe or here.  The plants you give me or
sell me with your labels I highly value & keep them with my small
private portable herbal.  But surely you will allow me to dispose
of duplicated like those now sold me.  The fact is I have too
many plants, my herbarium is too large already.  You see that in
order to get 100 additions I must wade thro' [through] the 600 sent me now.
I have no house of my own, & no Society which I esteem as liberal
where to deposit my large herbal.  I have procurred 40 boxes wherein
to put them.  Why did Nuttal sell his herbal?  and why was 
$600 given him, while he only described 600 species at most.  One dollar
for every species.  I shall describe as new, or needing reform, 1000 or
more & thus ought to have $1000 for them.  Yet I only ask $500 for
2500 species, including the rarest of all plants, well ascertained & compared.

If I was to be employed in some Scientific Survey at N. York [New York] or
elsewhere, this would take me some years of new labors, and I should
have to store my Herbarium, etc my geological collections.  What you
deemed insufficient for your labor, would be acceptable to me, but I
have little hope of an appointment.  I am told that there is no chance
unless I go to Albany to sollicit.  My friend young Conrad is gone
there, he would do as Dftsman [Draftsman] & Conchologist.  I have half a mind
to prep in Albany myself this summer or fall, & sollicit for next
Year, if not for this.  I should have then time to prepare myself
& leave my actual business but it would be improper for me to go
        