
          his new address will be 57 Murray Street-- but I do not
 propose to accompany the family thither, & am at this very
 moment hunting about for some decent, & not over expensive
 chambers for myself. As soon as I am located, I will
 write you, at once, and until I do so, I would rather that
 you retain the further bundle of Carices [Carex], of which you
 make mention-- that they may be spared unnecessary travel.
 You have not sent [Edward] Tuckerman's letter, (as you say [added with caret: that you have] in your
 own), but it is quite needless, as I know the purport of
 it from one which he wrote to myself, & which I may, or
 may not, answer, hereafter. To enable you, however, to
 avoid all appearances of unkindness towards him, I have
 just opened your folio, & send you the needful, without any
 comment of my own, which I am not, at present, prepared
 to make. Tuckerman's object is to establish that his
 C. cylindrica [Carex cylindrica] (which it appears is the real C. bullata [Carex bullata] of
 Schk. [Schenk?]) is the same plant as C. cylind. of Scwh. [Louis David von Schweinitz] & this
 he is so very anxious to do, in order that the other plant
 (our old C. bullata) may bear the name of C. Tuckermanii [Carex tuckermanii]
 imposed by [Chester] Dewey-- a matter in which T's egregious vanity
 feels the deepest concern. Now, your Herb. [Herbarium] throws the following
 light on the matter--


 On the same paper with your (only) origl. [original] specn. [specimen] of
 C. cylindrica, Schw. [schweinitz] you have from "near Boston, Greene"
 a plant exactly corresponding with the authentic specimens
 of C. cylindrica, Tuckm. against which you have yourself
 written "C. cylindrica, Tuckm. [Tuckerman] hardly of Schw. [Schweinitz]"-- & on the
 other paper, containing Tuckerman's own authentic specimens
 & label, you say-- "C. cylindrica Schw, [An.?] tab.? Does not well 
        