182 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
awned & the superior 2-awned—the male spikelet resembling the 
hermaphrodite one except in the pistil &c. 
From AMPHIPOGON of R. Brown it differs in not having a 
spiked panicle, in the exterior florets of the spikelets not having an 
involucrum, &c. 
From the genus Lycurus of Humb., which has the spikelets 
geminate, one of them 9, pedicellate, the other @ v. n., sub- 
sessile & resembling the hermaph. though smaller &c.— 
A. a sketch of the plant k. spikelet of male florets— 
b. congeries of spikelets l. inferior glume—showing one 
of the margins involute & armed 
c. the same expanded to show with a bristle about half way 
them more distinctly down 
d. a glume of the hermaphro- m. superior glume—one of the 
dite spikelet nerves produced into a cusp 
e. corolla of the same n. corolla 
f. —— inferior valve o. inferior valve 
g. superior valve p. superior valve 
h. stamens q. stamens 
i. pistil -= r. rachis— 
Aegopogon cenchroides of H. & B. comes near our plant by the 
description but yet differs sufficiently to be at least specifically 
distinct. To the other species of this genus (several of which are 
described by Lagasca in his Nov. Gen. & Sp. [42][ under] the gen. 
name of Hymenothecium) it has little affinity. 
I have no time at present to write more, except to ask whether 
you have a short paper that we could publish in the present no. 
of the Annals of the Lyceum, a work which I think I told you we 
were about commencing—If you have one that would occupy 
4 or 5 pages or less we would be much obliged to you for it & 
Please answer me by the return post if possible & believe me to 
remain 
Dear Sir 
Your much obliged humble servt & friend 
Joun TORREY 
P.S. I am preparing a package for you to go by the stage in a 
few days. Mr. Halsey hopes to be able to add something. 
