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from the mountains of Carolina, being in the same 

 state, compare pretty well. I should unite them, only 

 the seeds are different, Stone Mountain plant half the 

 size, and shape rather different. But please rattle me 

 out some real ripe seeds of your plant, for further 

 comparison. 



At Stone Mountain I looked rather for small spe- 

 cimens to match with A. brevifolia. I send you a 

 bit. 



I have sent the Sedum and Diamorpha yesterday to 

 Paris, to compare and see if both are in Herbarium 

 Michaux. 



I am proud of my little discovery ! 



Ever yours, ASA GRAY. 



TO R. W. CHURCH. 



CAMBRIDGE, June 22, 1875. 



I must indulge, on its rising, the impulse to com- 

 municate with you, which a letter from Miss P. to my 

 wife, just received, has awakened. 



If I go on as I have been going, we shall come to 

 know nothing of each other. . . . 



She will have told you of our loss in the death of 

 Mrs. Loring. I never knew a woman fuller of charity, 

 humility, and good works. 



If there were time for a gossiping letter I or Mrs. 

 Gray would give you some account of a trip which we 

 made to Florida this spring. An annoying cough, 

 and a chronic catarrh, the consequence of a trying 

 winter, acting upon old susceptibilities, distressed my 

 friends more than it did me. So, yielding to their 

 solicitations, off we went, about the middle of March, 

 to Washington, visiting old friends ; to Augusta and 

 Savannah, Georgia ; and thence Apalachicola, a now 



