
          Now although I do not pretend to say that those
or any of them are new, yet I do say that if known they
have been heretofore so inaccurately described that the descriptions 
require to be rewritten to suit the species as they
occur with us; and such improved characters I should 
be gratified to find introduced into your forthcoming work.

To enable you to judge the more correctly of
my views in relation to these plants, I should be pleased
to communicate to you perfect specimens of them, together
with remarks on each carefully made from living plants.
If indeed I have not already surfeited you with Kentucky
specimens I could by the fall make out I think an interesting
parcel of such as I have not heretofore sent you.
Would that be in time for your publication?

I have not had the gratification of hearing from
you since some short time before your departure for
Europe, although from the tenor of that communication
I had some reason to expect the pleasure of hearing 
from you on your return to America and also of receiving
a parcel of N. York plants. Having established correpondences
and exchanges with various portions of the U.S.
I hope in process of time to get together a very perfect collection 
of American plants (indeed my herbarium now occupies
fifty large folio volumes) and I should be much gratified 
to add to it all the plants of your neighbourhood.

        