
          Notes for Dr. Torreys perusal


 List of Willows growing in Middletown, Conn [Connecticut] collected by J. Barratt 
 in 1831.


 Salix prinoides 
       discolor
       balylonica [babylonica]
 4    falcata [now Salix nigra]
 5    Cordata
 6    var. falcata [now Salix nigra]
 7    petiolaris
 8    vitellina [now Salix alba var. vitellina]
 9    nigra
 10  grisea
 11  Eriocephala of Mx. [Michaux] 
       Conifera of Ph.
    Tre [tree] 15 feet high
 Leaves obovate rugose, tomentose
 beneath, 15 feet high [branches?]
 are full of diseased places caused
 by stings, not unlike galls, 
 leaves much crowded at the
 extremity of the brances [branches].


 Will examine this very closely [added: when] in flower and provide
 numerous specimens. I have found no good or exact
 description. what can it be?


 Populus angulata Willd [Willdenow] [now Populus deltoides]
 ---            balsamifera Lin [Linnaeus]
 ---            grandidenta [grandidentata] Michx [Michaux] 
 ---            tremuloids Mx [Michaux]
 ---            monilifera [now deltoides subsp. monilifera] 
 This species grows here 
 beautifully You have not noticed
 this species, you shall have
 specimens of it.


 Rumex aquaticus   5 feet high  I have European Specimens
 of this plant but never saw it
 growing before I found it here.
 You dont make it large enough
 in your flora


 Carex squarrosa with 3 spikes very common. More plants
 here have 3 spikes than one. So much so as
 to be entitled to especial notice. The spikes are
 much longer than the fig [figure] in Monograph Am Ly NY [Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York]
 so that the descrip [description] p 299 from one inch to 2 in length
 will apply to the Middletown specimens.


 Pycnanthemum muticum. This grows in a meadow
 near the [Combe?] Factory, Saddle Hill, Middletown in
 company with 2 other species. A cold wet meadow
 Rumex aquaticus also grows in the same in water or ditches
        