
          In looking over your new York list of grasses, I see you follow Muhlenberg [added: s ground?]
in calling Poa serotina Ehr. [Ehrhart] (Red Top) I would English the name, 
and have [added: done so] to our Farmers, thus late yellow meadow 
grass. I regard it at Middletown as a valuable grass in 
certain situations, and have advised its cultivation. 
There is much confusion in the appellation of Red top 
and therefore I have taken the freedom to remind you 
of the improper use of this name. It is not a red top 
and by referring to Muhlenberg Catalogus [Catalogus plantarum Americae Septentrionalis], Ed. [Edition] of 1818 under Poa
palustris p. [page] 11, n. [number] 5. It is there called marsh (meadow grass) 
The English names in this list might have been given in your
list for the state, or an enlarged or revised nomenclature,
with copious synonyms for the Farmers as you know doubt would furnish.

A list of the exact time of the flowering of the grasses is wanted. 
Sinclair gave such a list for England, but no such a list has been 
prepared in this country. I think I have made the best I have seen, 
and mine is not very extensive. It would do for the southern 
counties of New York. You have my flowering and fruiting 
calender [calendar] of the Carices. Of the grasses I find when the 
season has advanced to June and July, there is about 
a months difference in the same species flowering in England 
and this continent, caused by the greater heat of the summer 
in this latitude.

Prof J. Torrey MD 
Medical College 
Crosby Street
New York

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