
          on a vain errand, if others have been thought of & all the numbers
are filled.  Yet not one appointment has yet appeard in the Newspapers.
I am waiting the reply of a friend near Albany to decide.

The Georgia plants contain 2 Gentians.  [Gentiana angustifolia] & [Gentiana caterbei] ?
but this last with rounder leaf & fewer flowers than ought to be.  There are 
many fine Sabatias.  This is also a favorite G. with me & I shall now be
able to make a better monograph of .

The Monocotyle plants (exclusive of grasses) are but few 1/8th of the 
whole, hardly any Orchis.  There is the Tradescantia hirsuta & [Tradescantia rosea]
with the glaberrioma mistaken for [Tradescantia virginica] as usual.  Some pretty Trillium,
the real Lilium caterbei at last.  An Iris in poor order appears
new.  I'll call it [Iris graminifolia] or [Iris stenophylla]

Many Liatris, a genus yet obscure to me, altho' I have 21 Species of it.
The Lespedeza, Hedylarum, Desmodium... are yet very obscure to me.
So are the Galiums, Aparine ... I wish I could get all your names.

I have found this spring 7 miles from the City, in a swamp among
rocks, a Stellaria new to me, which I will send you.  I can't make it
out among the 42  Sp in Eaton, nor 6 in Beck.  See if it is in Hooker.

Stellaria parviflora Raf ? Caul 4 gono, glabro, prostrata. fol . oblongis
brevis sessileb.pedunculis, calice brevior.  Stam 5!  Stigman 3.  This is
therefor an Alsine whether a G. or sub Genus.  It is one of the Sp. [illegible]
in St. borealis? flowers very minute.  Has the St. Alsine of Europe stem 4 gone?

My Life & researches is published.  How many copies will you
want?  Are you in N.Y. or Princeton now.  The 2d vol [volume] of my
American Nations is printing.  I have made therein great discoveries
in Bible & Mosaic truths, by referring to the text & names of Mosses.

I remain as usual your old friend

C.S. Rafinesque
        