
          for the season, [crossed out: and they] [added: which] have resulted in the acquisition
of a greater number of specimens than I have ever yet collected;
for Mr.  [Henry A.] Griswold, of Louisville, together with Dr. Peter
and myself, have, during the season, added fully 200 species 
to our Catalogue of the plants of Kentucky. Among these 
perhaps a few are new; and of them and Eupatoreum [Eupatorium], by far
the most beautiful, that I know, of that vast genus, was found
by me in a noted locality, the neighbourhood of the Mammoth 
Cave! This I shall call E. [Eupatorium] torreyanum, and shall so venture 
to publish it in the forth coming no. of the Transylva. Jour. of Med. [Transylvania journal of medicine &c.]
Another in a Ludwigia, nearly allied to L. mollis, of Elliott, from
the wet lands around Louisville; and a third, a Scutellaria.

This collection I am now distributing into seventeen 
parcels! for various friends and correspondents in Europe & 
America, and I need scarcely say that one of the most choice
is for yourself. Inasmuch, however, as I can only work at this
distribution at stolen moments, during the winter, it will probably
be spring before I get through, so that you must not 
expect this treat of newborn plants before March or April.
They shall be sent, as usual, to Mr. Dobson, and you will be
apprized of the time of thier [their] departure from this. I am now
bending all my efforts, in this way, toward the formation of 
a large and perfect Herbarium of [added: N. [North]] American plants; and I can
effect this is no other way than by the medium of exchange.
Can you inform me of any gentlemen of Maine or Canada
who are likely to help me to the plants of thier neighbourhoods for mine.
        