
          you and your family abundantly [crossed out: illegible] - you say nothing of the little erigeron sent
 in the same parcel, and which I thought was was new _ _ Respecting the Acer, _ Hooker must
 be right, if he made a species of it distinct from A. Rubrum & Dasycarpum __ In
 the spring I compared it with the plates of Mix, Arb. Flor - and with the descriptions
 of those sps by all our botanists. and am satisfied that it must be new or a very
 distinct var. of A. dasycharpum, with which it agrees in the whitness of the leaves
 & some other secondary characters _ The A. dasycarpum I believe is confined to
 low lands, perhaps to swamps; this sp. grows only on ground, that are covered the
 greater part of the year with water (in ponds & ^ [added: in] low swamps of the Miss. R. which
 are subject to annual innundations _ The fruit sent you was collected after
 [crossed out: illegible] most trees of the kind had lost their fruit, and it was falling from the
 one from which the specimens were obtained _ so that they must have attained
 the full size, though some trees do bear a little larger, (they had fallen at that time).
 It agrees also with dasycharpum in blooming very early, as the fruit had mustly [mostly?] fallen
 by the 20th of March of the present year _ I will endeavout next spring to get
 drawings, made of it in the various states, though I know of no one at present
 here that could do it satisfaatorily _ If I can do no better I will make the
 best sketches of it that I can.._..Planera gruelcui, shall be supplied to you
 in every stage you desire _ _ A shall all those you desire, viburnums, galiums doubtful compositeae _ .


 I have been zealously employed during the present year in investigating
 the botany of this region as far round as my leisure would permit me to range_
 I will proceed to give you some results of my observations _ _  _ _
 1st. The grass sent you as "Agrostis indica? a [lays vas?]", is I think, not only a
 distinct sp. but also a distinct genus, not yet described by American botanists,
 and as far as I can see by Europeans, I therefore think that it is new, or
 not described in any of our works on botany - The flowers are not those of
 Agrostis and are arranged in ^ [added: compressed] " spikelets of 8 and 10 fls; at the base of each
 of these spikelets, is a pair of large, opposite glumes, (Glumaceous bractia
 or involucres) - These spikelets are sessile, arranged in racemose, paniculate,

        