Prof. Asa Gray, 
Harvard University, 
Caiiib ridge, Mass. 
My dear Doctor; 
The coi Lection of plants which I sent you tnrough Professor 
Baird, would have been followed by a letter ere this, had I been able to 
attend to it. 
The collection I sent you is as coiuplete as I could uaKe it 
with my limited knowledge of botdny, except as regards the moss, which I 
wiLl send you later. 
I now enclose a single, plant which 
T/ i U' 
from any 1 hc.ve forwarded to you.^I should like to call attention to 
specimen No. 23, which Dr.Vasey of the Agricultural Department thinks a, 
new plant . lA~ cur— ^ t 
appears 
dif f e rent 
In default of your being at Cambridge , and my necessity of 
getting some of my plants in order, I asked Dr.Vasey to identify the 
collection as far as possible, which he has kindly done. Tiiere are,hov/- 
ever, quite a number of specimens, generally draba,w]iich he could not 
