
          Gorham Oct. 19th 1830.


 Dear sir


 Your favour of the inst. was received a
 few days since and I can assure you was not less
 welcome for coming unexpectedly. I have at present
 merely time to say that there occurs an excellent opportunity
 to send a package to your City and rather than lose
 it I shall lay together partly what I can and send along.
 Among my specimens you will find many common plants
 some of these I threw in to show you what grows here and 
 others to obtain your opinions of my labels. I am not satisfied
 with Prunus pubescens but could make nothing else of it.
 Poa canadensis ditto. Glyceria fluitans ditto & Agropyron
 caninum ? least of all. Indeed among the grasses I shall
 expect to hear of errors.


 Triglochin maritima I am convinced can be nothing else
 the capsules certainly vary in number in the earliest
 flowering specimens, I find them 3-4-5 & 6
 sometimes all in the same plant. The latest flowering
 specimens have more invariably 6 capsules.
 Aspidium intermedium 3 specimens together, are they alike?

        