
          Recd. Sept 19th
and. 30th
Cambridge, Mass -
28 Aug. 1838

Respected sir,
The interest which every student of Botany
necessarily feels in the great work of which you have just issued the 
first part -  + the perhaps natural desire to embody in it anything which 
his own observation has detected, is my only (though I trust it may 
be regarded a sufficient) excuse for [?] upon you the following letter +
+ its accompanying packet. I regret that the specimens are not better +
more numerous  - but if they are of value - this can be easily corrected.
the Rubus chamaemorus - has not yet been indentified with any particular
locality (within my knowledge) + I have never seen any other habitat in the 
books beside Pursh's. the plant is very abundant on the lower summits
of the Wh. [White] Mts. - folowering in June + ripening its fruit about the 1st of Aug.
The fruit is amber-colored - large - + almost [?] - agreeing perf-
ectly with the dsc. in Eng. Botany. Having procured Bigelow's [?] [?]
[?] in what I supposed might be it orig. locality (at the base; for
though Bigelow does not indicate this, I cannot think it is found at a
much higher altitude - this base being estimated at about 1700 ft) I
supposed the specimen might be useful in determining its identity with
the sp. called lanceolata in your Flora - which point is made a 
doubtful one in Dr. Beck's Botany. The Lobelia Dortmanana, or which
        