
          agree with a Schweinitzian sp. [species] of C. cylin. [Carex cylindrica] in my herb. [herbarium] J.T."
 You further mark, as a syn. [synonym], "C. Tuckermani, [Carex tuckermanii] Dew. [Chester Dewey] Sil. J. [Silliman's Journal, i.e. American Journal of Science and Arts]
 49. [volume 49?] p. 48"-- but this is an error, as the last was founded not
 on the C. cylind. [Carex cylindrica] of Tuckm. [Edward Tuckerman] but on our old (very intumescent)
 C. bullata [Carex bullata], which I, in [Asa] Gray's Book, have (to the dismay &
 annoyance of Tuckm. [Tuckerman]) referred to C. cylind. [Carex cylindrica] Schw. [Louis David von Schweinitz]-- When 
 I see you, I will talk over with you what I now think
 & feel in the subject; but in the meantime it is enough that
 the evidence afforded by your herb. [herbarium] (so far as it goes) does
 not, in your opinion, establish the fact desired by Tuckerman, 
 but rather the reverse! I have copied your own exact words
 that you may write to him, in full assurance what your views
 were, when studying the species. Thus much for Tuckm. 
 but now, as between you & me, there is this difficulty-- 
 The plant of Schw. [Louis David von Schweinitz] has, in fact, the precise [facies?i.e. fascies?]
 of that to which I referred it (our old C. bullata) &
 by no means that if the C. cylind. of Tuckm. but,
 most unfortunately, the beak of the perigm. [perigonium] is slightly serrulate
 & this char. [character] we all supposed to belong arbitrarily to the
 C. bullata [Carex bullata] Schk. [Schenk? Schrenk?](C. cylind. [Carex cylindrica] of Tuckm. [Tuckerman]) Now, therefore, reference
 must be had to the herb. [herbarium] of Schwein. [Louis David von Schweinitz] at Phila. [Philadelphia] & if, as it
 is quite likely, it should turn out that Schwz. [Louis David von Schweinitz] himself
 confounded the two plants, it is quite manifest that one
 of them being Schk.'s [Schenk? Schrenk?] C. bull. [Carex bullata] the other must bear the name
 of Schw. [Schweinitz] C. cylind. [Carex cylindrica] -- But I would say nothing of all this
 to Tuckm. until you can speak authoritatively from the
 proper herb. [herbarium] of Schwz. [Louis David von Schweinitz] at Phil. [Philadelphia]-- as to our own single specm. [specimen]
 what I have given above will enable you to answer his [lr? i.e. letter?]
 If you are going to Phila. [Philadelphia] before I see you, let me know, & I
 will write you, at length, the minute points to be observed, in the matter.
        