
          On these 4 plants certain questions will arise as to
 names & synon. [synonyms] & it may save both you and Boott
 trouble that he should see them for himself.
 Adieu!


 I am a little better to-day, but "commemorating" does not
 suit me very well, in my present weak & nervous condition, & I
 find the noise oppressive. I am going down town, but may find
 the P.O. [Post Office] closed, very probably-- 4 July, noon.


 Prof'r. [Professor] J. Torrey 
 Princeton
 New Jersey


 Sickness prevented my mailing my letter yesterday, & I therefore
 further add that if you conclude to send carices [Carex] within named
 to Boott [Francis Boott], you may as well add to the package, the following
 of the Expl'g Exp'n [United States Exploring Expedition] plants--
 [crossed out: C. mertensii]
 C. cryptocarpa [Carex cryptocarpa](Scauleri-Torr.)
 Sitchensis [Carex sitchensis, now Carex aquatilis var. dives]
 vesicaria [Carex vesicaria] B. Boott?
 Bongardiana-- C.A.M. [Carex bongardiana C.A.Mey., now Carex vesicaria]
 Let him see, also, what I have referred to this last, in your own Herb. [Herbarium]

        