
          Rec'd January 18th
ansd Jany 22nd
ansd Jany 24th

Dr John Torrey                  Philadelphia 10th January 1838
New York

My good friend.  Last month Mr Dobson informed me that your package
of plants so long mislaid had reached him & I have rec'd it with your letter
of the 17th Sep 1836!  15 months old!  This is a strange delay between NYK [New York] 
& Philadelphia & precludes our constant interchanges or examen of specimens
unless more safe & speedy means be found.  Meantime I'll answser now such
articles of your letter as require it.  I have also rec'd by mail a few days
ago from you the Catalogue of Newborn plants by Groom, postage 24 cts.
this also will demand some remarks.  I thank you for it.

Of all my plants you have retained only yr Calamagrostis ! (Amagris
Raf 1814!) brevisilis & thus precluding my remembering your species!
It is strange you should admit Calam, agroitis! abominable Antilinnean
& antirational name!  half arabi & half greek & [crossed out:half] both halfes already
employed as Genera!  I think I have several specimens of it, but am not sure abt [about]
the identity of your species.  You shall have Styridrum which is one
of your Mysiophyt. but I have well examined the bloom.

Blechnum virginicum is still in Eaton, different from [Woodwardia virginica]
this being [Woodwardia bannisteriana]  Mx.  The 2 G hardly differ, yet the lines are interrupt
in W. & so they are in my Bl. virg. of Lin. thus a Woodwardia, but very diff [different] sp [species]
[Woodwardia angustifolia]!

You are right the N. Jers. is not the real [Hypericum kalmianum].  The genus
Sarothra not to be given up, but I write these to all the Hyp. with Caps anatocules
and few stamens than usual.

My New flora is Mantissa begun to print in 1836 is still going on & [crossed out:has]
[crossed out:been] altho' interupted by my flora Telluriana & 2 works published this
Spring (1 The Univers, 2 Safe Banking) is proceeding as fast as correct
exam can allow.  I wished to issue the whole work together, but I shall be
compelled to issue when half is ready 3 numbers of 100 pages as in Flora tellur.
My 3d N in the Trees or Shrubs or a New Sylva is not quite ready.  I have
there revised many different monographs of Trees! as this is a branch you
little consider, I wish you could send me quickly your doubtful Trees & Shrubs
for my appendix.  Those of Florida, Texas, Oregon etc would be particularly
acceptable & they will be returned to you if you require it.  Have you
got the Garrya, Planera, etc.

My specimens will be kept in my Autikon! the Duplicates will be
sent to Europe.  You again argue that it is impossible to find N Sp in our
vicinity! etc.  Botanists must be blind or ignorant!  Now these 2 cases
often occur, by blending incongruities.  Witness for instance our Vitis! and
the g. Eclipta! of which yourself with all your knowledge know no more
than did Linneus of our Oaks and Ash trees.  We have no Eclipta erecto
in N. Amer! it is a South Am. [South American] plant, but we have G Sp of erect Eclipta, and 

        