184 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM Sept. 16th 1823 
My dear Sir 
This moment I receive your kind letter of the 11th & am the 
more eager to answer it immediately because I greatly regret 
that you took the trouble to apply to me, upon a doubt, which I am 
so entirely incompetent to decide, as it retarded your work. Ihave 
never paid anything like sufficient attention to the analysis of the 
` Grasses (the Carices excepted) to enable me to give an opinion; 
least of all concerning the identity of [a] Genus—it is a part of the 
Study of Botany which I have still in view—Besides I am un- 
provided with the works in which the genera are analysed. Ex- 
cuse me therefore in not being able to be of any service to you in 
this respect. Neither of the Genera to which your interesting 
grass (of which you certainly kindly sent me a specimen) might 
belong is at all known to me. 
My long absence has prevented me from writing the little 
articles which I had intended—I hope to be able to prepare some 
during the winter—with which I shall trouble you for the Annals 
of the Lyceum if found worthy. I am at this moment busily 
engaged with my monography of the American carices [71], which 
however becomes too voluminous to be printed in a Journal. I 
shall therefore, if you permit me, take the liberty, when finished 
to send you the manuscript, together with my Volume of Carices 
for use & inspection—especially in reference to your Flora [89]. 
I cannot describe the pleasure which its perusal gave me, nor 
sufficiently thank you for the present. Unless you forbid me, my 
next will contain a sheet of remarks upon it*—together with 
the few additional plants if any, which I have found in the region 
it includes—I intend to subjoin a list of the plants in this vicinity 
to enable you to send for any you may wish to see for your work— 
if I have no specimens to spare I wish you at least to see such 
as may be of use—& there is not one in my collection which I 
should not be glad to send you for examination & recognition. 
It will not be uninteresting to you to be informed that the Ger- 
ardia auriculata—hitherto only found by Dr. Darlington in Chester 
* Not upon the Genera of Grasses however—for unfortunately I have only a 
kind of knack-knowledge of them. 
