
          If you will favor me with any remarks, notes or disquisitions
in some genera, or grasses, etc I will insert them verbatim in your name.
Send me first the Letter A to L.  If you send me specimens named from
Florida, Key west, Texas, Alabama, I shall quote you as standard.
As you cant send them all, I would beg for a Catalogue of all your
rare plants from Florida & Alabam & I shall quote your herbal.

This New flora shall be my flora, instead of a gerneal flora, as
the expense & trouble of it would be too great.  I still hope you will hive
us one day a General flora instead of a Torrey's flora.  Yet this
work shall be a thick octavo, a companion & addition to all our
Floras.  How many copies will you take?  The price will probably be
$3.  If you take 10 copies, I'll take half of it in plants of Flor [Florida]
& Alabama, named or unnamed as you like, but sent me this 
fall or winter.  The first sheet will go to press this month.
Whatever I may receive while I print, will be thrown in an appendix
if additional.

When this work is printed, my botanical labors from1802 to
1836 in America will be better known, & I shall have done my task.
Each copy of the work will be accompanyed with 50 Autikons
or figure by specimens of new plants, but sold apart at $5 also
whoever will ask will have the choice, except for the [illegible] & single
which must be deposited when sold in a proper place for consultation.

Mr. John King of N. Yk [New York] (which you know) wants all my botanical
works.  I send him some by a parcel [added: to yr care] with this parcel of plants
which please deliver to him.

Please return me these 24 plants with your opinion & names
unless you want to keep some.  But send them back with your
next parcel of plants to me and not by the way of Kentucky!!!
as you did once.

I send you 2 copies of my Life & Travels, please say if you
want more.  The 2d Vol of my Amer. Nations is printed but
not bound yet.

Respectfully

Your friend

C.S. Rafinesque

Send me your character for your new
Empetrum

PS. I have found at Kenkona on the Delaware your
Cicuta bulbifera fol bi & hitematis, which is not the C. bulbifera of
Linneus, fol feniculacus!  I had never met this plant in bloom before.  It is
not a Cicuta, but nearer Oenanthe & Aethusa.  I'll make a genus of it
Keraskomion.  The bulbs are scaly like bracts of trees, is it the [Cicuta venenosa]
of Greenway omitted by all Botanists?
        