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& find it answers admirably. Now my enquiry is, whether your 
Journal would admit such an analytical table [67] of all the Amer- 
ican Carices—about 100 in number which I know of—by means of 
which every person that is only slightly acquainted with the 
terminology—shall be almost with absolute certainty enabled to 
find, of any given Carex in his hand, whether it is in the table or 
not, & if in, what name the author of the table calls it by. These 
names will then refer to the authors who mention the Carex for 
ample descriptions—or, as regards the new ones established by 
me, to descriptions, which might follow in another number. The 
table itself would not take more than at most five leaves in an 
octavo book—If you are unacquainted with this method, I am sure 
its effects will please & astonish you. In case you thought such a 
table admissible (with short directions for its use) what would 
be the latest period for sending it to you? 
Let me beg you, when you put the promised package of 
plants into the stage, to give me information thereof at the same 
time by way of Philad.—with a few lines, that I may enquire for 
the package at Easton— 
With sincere affection 
Your most obliged Servt 
Lewis D v SCHWEINITZ 
REMARKS UPON Dr. TORREY’S FIRST NUMBER OF A 
NORTHERN FLORA 
The plan and its execution are equally excellent. As regards 
its coincidence with Elliott’s Sketch and Nuttall’s promised 
Western Flora to form a complete account of the plants of the 
United States—I only regret that Mr. Elliott has confined himself 
to South Carolina & Georgia. The two intermediate states, 
Virginia & North Carolina, more especially the latter with its 
high mountains & remarkable swamps, leave a gap of some 
consequence, which ought to be filled up. I presume Dr. Torrey 
does not include Labrador, Canada, etc. 
I shall now proceed to remark upon the Genera & species in 
their Order; not mentioning those I have nothing to say to. 
Salicornia herbacea or virginica; of these I have never seen speci- 
mens & beg for some. 
