
          upon examination that very few of them can be put up in
this package. Perhaps you will [?] [?] more than
will be [had?] & interesting. Some of them you have [?]
I send them merely vecause they were collected here.
My time permits me to make but very few observations
upon them, but a future opportunity if necessary,
will afford [?] [?] for all that can be inquired.
No. 3 is cultivated here, I believe it a native of the
United States but am in doubt inspecting the Species.
No.4 Monenda histicta of your flora 
No.5 This Hypericum I send you some 3 or 4 years
since. You returned it as a variety of Parviflora
then & now I was & am satisfied you soon [?]
but then it was not sufficiently advanced for examination
the present specimens are better. H. sphaerocarpum Whx?
It approaches close to this species but may be different.
Perhaps it is H. adpressum of Boston, but I think not
No. 9 Schonus? Perhaps Cladium of Brown, this
plant I have examined with considerable attention, but
will await your remarks. Of the rest, time now fails.
And when I hear from you. [Any?] thin expecting [?] of
which I can inform you it shall be done with pleasure.
Perhaps you may find it convenient to to send an [?]
& if so my [?] promises now [?]
for entertaining it than formerly. [?] for nothing
else I should wish to hear from you as a friend.
Write as soon as possible I will expect an answer.

Your sincere friend
Matthew Stevenson
John Torrey M.D. West Point

        