aT.64.] TO R. W. CHURCH. 653 
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 
it. 
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 ee 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 
