
          What have you been doing this year?  What collections rec'd [received]? Have you more
Florica & Alabama plants to spare? or Texan which you promised me.  Could 
you furnish me a complete set of them & procure me the Compendium with name.
I will pay for it.  I am sure now that out of 100 names of Hooker 20 or 40 are
always wrong! & he hides many new Genera.  I want also the promised
plants of the Keys of Florida, not so much to publish as to complete my monographs.
I would prefer to have your names well settled.

Altho' [although] I have not been far from Philad. [Philadelphia] this year I have discovered some new
plants [illegible].  Eclipta longifolia at the mouth of Schuykill & 2 or 3 in New Jersey!

Farewell.  write me about the 2 florida shrubs or give me a clue to them.

Your old friend

C.S. Rafinesque

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Dr John Torrey
Profr etc Barclay Street
Medical College
New York
        