
          other errors which ought to be corrected, but I have not
time to attend to them. I practise medicine for a 
living, & consider botany a secondary affair. Both Prof.
Eaton & the publisher, Mr Gates understood from me,
before the present edition was commenced, that my time
would not admit of [crossed out: proof?] undertaking to correct all of the
errors of the book. All that I have attempted to
has been to correct in some measure the language, [crossed out: correct] [added: improve] some
of the descriptions, [crossed out: &] insert new [crossed out: ones] [added: plants], when I could conveniently 
get hold of them & transfer a few species to
other genera. The whole has been done hurriedly. I
have never seen the copy before going to the printer,
& never but one proof of a form, & that without
copy to compare with it. I have mentioned these
circumstances to show you the relation in which I have [stood?]
to the book. The corrections &c which I have suggested
have been written on sheets of paper & sent
to Prof E. [Eaton]. The Prof. knows that there are mistakes
in the book, but he is too old to correct them, 
and as for myself I never thought of undertaking to 
correct all its errors.

I sent you all of my specimens Baptisia leucophaea
and as I have no description of it, I wish that you will
write me one, also with a description of the genus
Vilfa. I have hunted until almost exhausted for
some specimens of Utricularia purpurea but they are
[added: not] visible at present. The mistakes in quoting the Flora 
        