
          [?] to find them in the condition you received them or not
I showed you a specimen of Mitella with one leaf only upon the 
stalk & that there [were?] [considered?] it as a variety of M, cordifolia
I think it is rather common for a mere variety & also the leaves I
think differ somewhat from M. cordifolia although but slightly 
I do not know that it is anything more than a variety. It grows
in company with M. cordifolia & is nearly as common in that place
as M. cordifolia. I never have seen it in any other place although
I now know the localities of M. cordifolia. The difference between
them if it can be called a material difference is that it has a leaf on
the stalk & the curvatures of the leaves are [crossed out:?] acute, which in
Mitella cordifolia, there is no leaf on the stalk & the curvatures
of the leaves are obtuse. All this is only conjecture as
it respects their being distinct plants for I cannot say there
is any distinction between them more than a variety.
I wish you could become acquainted with W. [Bullious?]. I
think you would find him an agreeable man, but now I
recollect he called upon your father but did not see you
on a former visit to New York, & you will of course know something
about him. I thought to make a short letter 
when I began but I have scribbled till I have nearly
finished my paper. [?]

Yours
M. Stevenson
Dr. J. Torret N.Y.

        