
          in his cat. has another plant cultivated by Jefferson in the mauritan, a Taxus nucifera of Kaempfer
and which then from probably comes from Jefferson but as Wallich considers a Podocarpus. The whole
must then for you be in doubt. I have a accollint once seeing among Beechey's plants a Loachoo plant.
What I thought might be Taxus nucifera but it was not in fruit or flower nor am I even sure
if it was in that collection. (Messrs Lay and Coller were strange animals; they know as much of botany
as my toe, spend their whole day in playing the violin instead of botanising  and gathered
a most meagre collection. But peace be to them for I hear from Sir W. Hooker that one
or both of them began latterly to study it in earnest and has sent him some nice things
from New Holland or China (I forget which). My difficulty now is where to publish the
paper. Almost no journal will give me plates sufficient to illustrate the subject and also
allow a 100 copies to be thrown off for you (or me) besides I shall have to ge the whole sketches
reduced and put into a confused form. I have first of
all offered
it to
Hooker.
I do not
like sending it to the Linnean Soc.
of London as the committees input #

Recd. [Received] July 17th
Ansd. [Answered] by Dr. Gray

Arlary 29 May 1837

My dear Sir,

Long before this can reach you I trust you 
will have received a letter written about 6 weeks ago, to 
let you know that Dr. Gray's Cyperaceae had reached me 
and that I was in fear that my communication relative
to Torreya [redecrira?] had not found its way to you. It therefore 
only now remains for me to acknowledge the receipt of 
your last parcel and letter, specimens and Torreya taxifolia, 
and the several rare & very rare plants from Georgia and 
the Southern States. In my last I ought to have acknowledged 
the receipt of nos. 5, 6, & 7 of vol. III of the Annals 
of the Lyceum of New York, but the truth is that not having 
time to arrange the contents of Dr. Gray's parcel [added: in my herbm [herbarium]] and having 
a consulting copy in my library, I did not open it till 
a few days ago, when to my surprise I found a copy of 
the above part with Dr. Gray's compliments. It contains 
a [copy?] of Dr. Gray's description of Rhynchospora (a copy of which 
in sheets, however, he had previously sent me in a former 
parcel and his notices of new or rare plants. You mention 
having sent me in the same parcel a copy of part of your 
N. American Cyperaceae; there must be some mistake, 
as it was certainly not in my parcel, nor have I yet 
seen it. You sent a copy of Sir Wm. Hooker with a 
request to give me a loan of it, but although a few 
days would have served my purpose, in so far as

[cross writing]
#reject it (as was done with Pursh's [Clastia? Clavira?] because Brown  said he could prove no such 
plant could exist!!!) and if I send it to the Nov. Act. Ac. Nat. cur. I must turn the 
whole,  your letter and all, with Latin, which I don't like. On the 
whole I would prefer it being inserted in Hooker's 
Companion, and I expect to get an answer 
from him in a day or two. [Mr. Short? In short?] the 
plates it could be easily arranged.
I shall be delighted to form the personal 
acquaintance of Dr. Gray.

I applied to Nees v. [von] Esenbeck lately 
to write and publish a complete Agrostigraphia 
Indiae Orientalis to this. He [?] 
no objections but insists in its being a 
conjunct work of his and mine, and that 
I will send him my notes on [Overbrigh's?] 
species and the peninsular ones in particular.

I don't much like this for although I did 
assist him at the outset yet he has now 
received grasses from Himalayah &c. &c. of
which I am ignorant. [I hear?] he knows all

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