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  You say you like Alfred better & better does he like the business? is he glad he went there etc? Tell him to write to me.  
  The reason for Saying that I do not get better is that I grow perceptibly weaker. Specimens thankfully received, upon which I as follows report:
    Lobelia Dortmanna, Water lobelia, glad to see it.
    Limnanthemum lacunosum floating heart " "
    Melampyrum pratense,   Cow whaet, is the one mark'd "Abundant on Mt Grace as well as here abouts." "dry Copses" pr GRay
     Hypericum mutilum Alfred found it about here
    Goodyera repens.  Rattle snake Plantain Closely allied to, sometimes included in, Spiranthes alias Neottia
    Geum Virginianum!  white Avens. it is a plant in its appearance and "leaves very variable." the specimen looks quite different from those you found before you left but both are unquestionably G.V. of Gray. Big. makes two species which run into each other by varieties. 
    Agrimonia Eupatoria, Agrimony, is singular and well marked by its "Calix-tube arm'd with hooked bristles, persistent, and enclosing the fruit."
    Epilobium coloratum is abundant here flowering since you left, both this & E. palustre, a specimen of which you brought from the bog vary greatly & probably make the many Sorts which you mention there. Possibly you may find E. alphinum, of "high Mts N.H. & V. New York"
                     I am greatly exercised about the little yellow one from Sandy shores of Specticle Pond. these being but one flower I dare not pull it to pieces I have labor'd much on it to no purpose. P.S. am becoming