
          that time have noted localities. As to any observations on 
the characters of plants, I never made any memorandum. I 
have frequently observed a difference, but always thought I would
leave the business for those better qualified to make the amendments.
[?either] for many years did I note the date of obtaining a plant,
for I did not suppose I should ever want to find it again, of course
I cannot tell the exact tme of flowering. You may think I was 
compelled [?]. but the point is, I know no better, but, should I 
live to collect much hereafter, I mean to make amends for my
former neglect. You need not infer from the above that I know of
no localities, for at this day I think I can recollect of some hundreds
within a few miles of this place. My plants were collected and
range of some 25 miles North & South & [12 or 16?] east and west,
consequently are somewhat scattered, manyinteresting plants grow
in Junius Lenea Co. 24 miles from this place, I send a Catalogue of 
all my plants to Dr. Carey, you can examine it & if you find any 
not on the list I send, not them & give me a list of them
I should like much to have a copy of your mon. of N. & Cyperacea as I am
much troubled with some of our cyprus plants. Gray sent me some
two or three proof sheets by which I find considerable alteration
in their names and descriptions [etc?] and in arranging my Cyperacea
I was puzzled to find names that where exactly suitable I think of
going to MIchigan this season amout May or June and shall pay my best 
regards to their Gram. et. Cyp. You say in your leter " Please inform
me what modern botanical books you posess." I might answer none, or
almost none. I have Torrey's Comp. [Compendium] of the N. [Northern] United States 1826 [added: Gray's Elements] Eaton's Manual
Beck's Flora & Lindleys Int. [Intro] to Nat. [Natural] Systems which last is almost useless to
me except the Classification. I might Agardh's Systema Algerum which you
was so good as to send me, but as to my understanding it, is all out of the
question. I have tried two successive years to obtain Lindley's int. [Intro] to Bot. [Botany]
but have not succeeded. Is it worth purchasing?

        