
          [July 5 1847?]


 Monday Morng


 My dear friend, 


 By the hands of Mr. Grant I send
 you a few lines, accompanying a copy of our friend
 Boott's paper - with reference to which, a letter from him,
 11 ulto. [ultimo] rec'd [received] on Sat'y [Saturday] has the following obs. [observations].


 "I have discovered an oversight of mine! C. abbreviata [Carex abbreviata],
 Lin. Trs. [Transactions of the Linnean Society?] p. 141, is, to my marvel! C. Torreyi [Carex torreyi], Tuck'n [Tuckerman]. I took
 Prescott's [John D. Prescott] mss. [manuscript] name, anxious to preserve anything of poor
 Prescott, never dreaming of any American species. Prescott affords
 no clue to country, & therefore I suspect it may be from Arctic
 America. Correct this in my paper. Seeing Asiatic novelties
 in his Herb. [Herbarium] I dreamed of nothing else, & took all without
 habitats for plants of the Russian travellers"


 It appears he has more quiddities & discoveries
 respecting the Acutae, & I now regret that I did
 not send him the Expl'g Exp'n [United States Exploring Expedition] things, of that Section--
 as he is now thinking & writing about your C. Jamesii [Carex jamesii]
 of which, (as I suppose) there are such very varying
 forms amongst the Wilkes' plants. I do not gather from
 your brief remark, whether you are also inclined
 to refer them to your plant-- but I suppose not, as
 you did not seem to be at all struck with the
 resemblance, when they were first passed under
 your review, & only marked "Acutae aff. &c.
 I learn that the things sent to Boott for Exam'n [Examination] are
 now on their way home, & committed to the care
  
        