
          Ansd [Answered] April 3rd

Troy, March 21st 1840.

Dear Sir:

I received you letter of the 3d inst. [instant] but,
owing to illness, have not been able to answer it before
this time. I have been suffering from an attack of
pleurisy for 3 or 4 weeks, & am now recovering.

You wish another specimen of the Gymnandra, and
I now send you all that I have of it, which a very
poor specimen. You may be surprised at seeing a species
name attached to it in Eaton's Botany, but I am in no 
way accountable for this; it is wholly the work of [partially erased: Par.] E. [Eaton].
By some strange mistake in the punctuation [added: of the specific description] the cauline
leaves are represented as being coriaceous, whereas this term
was intended to apply to the radical ones. I have brought
very few plants from Mich. [Michigan] & of those mostly single specimens.
Mr. Bull my Assistant in Mich. has put up a bundle,
& I have added a few in a separate parcel, for you. I have
not strength to overhaul my plants to send you all I wish to.
I have committed a great blunder in quoting the Flora
wrongly, but on the receipt of your letter I took immediate
measures to have it corrected on the succeeding sheets. As for
the [T. & G.?] I never had any thing to do with it but on receiving
your letter I stopped the progress of the error. As for the 
capital letters at the beginning of some species, it is out of
my power to have them inserted. Prof. E. [Eaton] says the printers
have not got type to do it with. You mention 
        