
          alpine ravine called Oake's Gulph, with Bartsia pallida
+ Veronia alpina. I also found the Luzula + the Fes-
tuca - but these two Mr. Oakes had previously discovd.
I obtained after long search to the height of my desires
in finding a good + abundant station of Aspidium
aculeatum at the White Mtns. It seems to be 
fated [?] that nobody but Macrae + I shall ever come
across this most striking + elegant fern. I heard
when I got there of some curious plant in the
Notch Slides, but Mr. Oakes was at home + nobody
knew or would tell where it grew. I went to work
+ ransacked the Notch, till I not only found
it where Oakes had, but in a new + very
abundant locality, where I made 150 fine and
large specimens. It is a Paronychia - + Oakes says spec.
argyrocoma. I got several interesting lichens + am
very hard at work in making out a complete
Enumn of the White Mtns plants of this order,
with descns for Mr. Oakes. As soon as I get these
off my table - I have looked forward with great
pleasure to sending you all my rarities as ever is
duty bound. Alas the Aster! Mr. Greene has my only two
specimens, which agree perfectly with his own. I have
        