
          in dense patches on rocks on the side of Mt. Pleasant - in the Alpine
regions.
You are kind enough to offer to end me exchange specimens. If what 
I have sent are of value - it will be most gratifying to me. I
feel however that I can send little of any importance - + that your
kind [?] letters are as much as my observations really deserve.
I will however mention the Cistaceae - as peculiarly interesting to me
+ of which almost any species that you can spare will be highly valued. 
There are a few in the Flora which I have not any means of
obtaining here - though I believe they are not uncommon elsewhere.
But do not allow my ignorance of the rariy of any of these sp.
to trespass on your kindness. Until I have been able to commun-
icate something of greater value than I have yet - I shall feel
no claims + rest satisfied with what I have received already.
I have long had the first number of the Flora - anxiously 
look for the second one as I am rearranging my herbarium in accordance
with the method of the Flora: + by this plan I make the Book more 
familiar than in any other emperical way. - Since many years will
elapse before I shall be able to study a plant + arrive at all its
relations by the Natural Method - I am content to make an artificial 
arrangement to suit my own case. Botany is a Science: thgouh we did not
know it under the guidance of Prof. Eaton, nor fully comprehend it under
the brief review of Beck. Your great work - though it satisfies many a
student of some standing in the old way - that he knows barely anything
of Plants - will hardly discourage any who waned do honor to Botany.
though they find themselves - but on the threshold - yet the whole edifice 
        