
          which, from the very short description, seems to be just the plant
 of Jefferson Coy [County]. On the other hand, Hook. [William Jackson Hooker] in Flor. Bor. Am. [Flora boreali-americana], makes 
 no mention of this species, at all, which he aught [ought] to have done, if
 it really occurs in Newf'd. [Newfoundland]. Upon the whole, therefore, I wish you
 to go carefully over your materials & see if this be not, in fact, 
 a new, & altogether Amer'n. [American] species, which I strongly suspect
 it to be, under the circumstances. J. Grayii [Juncus grayii] would seem
 to be appropriate in such case.


 Olney [Stephen Thayer Olney] has also sent me one or 2 of his difficulties in a
 letter & amongst them a Poa which he calls P. trivialis, tho'
 I do not. As it grows abundantly about N. [probably Niagara] Falls, the
 question comes up in the State Flora, & I wish to draw your
 attention to it. The plant (me judice) is too slender, &
 too smooth for P. triv., the glumes & palea are also too obtuse, 
 & the branches of the pan'e. [panicle?] are in pairs, or even single,
 whereas in P. triv they are semi-vert'l. [vertical?] in 5s. Darlington [William Darlington]
 seems to understand P. triv, just as I remember it in Eng'd [England].
 On the other hand the ligule of the plant I am speaking of, is
 too sharp, & elongated, for any form of P. pratensis, or of P. nemoralis,
 which it resembles in some respects. It is not Elliott's
 P. pungens; if Darlington (who assumes to know that Species) be
 correct, as I have his plant, ex. herb. Gray [from Gray's herbarium]. It comes near
 to P. campyle, but that species has 4 florets, & differs in other
 respects. This plant seems to have regularly 3 flowers. As
 I have not seen the State Flora, on this point, it may be
 that you have worked this all out, but, if not, & time remains
 please look at the spec'ms [specimens]. One thing more, Mr. Browne
 sent me a few plants, and amongst other errors, I noted 
 that he put together specimens of Polygonatum multiflorum
 & P. pubescens [Poa pubescens], which Hooker does also (parvis componere magnis)

        