
          My dear Doctor -

I lose no time in embracing your kind offer, of looking
over my list of Cyperaceae, which you will find, annexed. Truly, to my fond eye,
it looks a very goodly array, & I contemplate the two long columns with huge
satisfaction, notwithstanding the little word (bad) which candour has compelled
me to append to some half dozen of the dear fellows, detailed. Upon the whole, 
however, it is so imposing, & respectable, that that I covet the more earnestly some
of the many (alas! too many!) lacking species. Now, independently of the charity
of the procedure, you will find yourself strangly [strangely] impelled to throw your mite, 
every now & then into my beggar's hat, to moderate, as much as may be, that
lurking covetousness, which after all, will not be found susceptible of cure, or
eradication, in this particular, but which may, without doubt, be somewhat
mitigated, and modified, by the exercise of your occasional bounty. Behold me,
therefore, all importunate, with hat in hand, to receive such alms as your charity,
benevolence, vanity, or any other inciting motive, good or evil, may induce you
to deposit, in it's [its] crown. I am very truly, your, already, much obliged, 
but, nevertheless, craving & unsatisfied, friend, 
[small drawing of a person holding out his hat]
Jno Carey [John Carey]

Chamber Street - 
Friday morning 6 oclk. !!

Doctor Torrey

[partial text of list from attached page, in two columns]

[column 1]
alba [Rhynchospora alba]
capillacea [Rhynchospora capillacea]
fusca [Rhynchospora fusca]
filifolia - (bad) [Rhynchospora filifolia]
distans - (bad) [Rhynchospora distans, now Rhynchospora fascicularis] 
glomerata [Rhynchospora glomerata]
cephalantha [Rhynchospora cephalantha]
paniculata [Rhynchospora paniculata, now either Rhynchospora glomerata or Rhynchospora polyphylla]
fascicularis (bad) [Rhynchospora fascicularis]

Ceratoschoenus macrostachys [now Rhynchospora macrostachya]
Cladium mariscoides
Scleria - reticularis (bad) [Scleria reticularis]
pauciflora [Scleria pauciflora]
triglomerata [Scleria triglomerata]
Hypoporum gracile (bad) [now Scleria lithosperma]
verticillatum [Hypoporum verticillatum, now Scleria verticillata]

[column 2]
retrorsa [Carex retrorsa]
oligosperma [Carex oligosperma]
bullata [Carex bullata]
vesicaria [Carex vesicaria]
Schweinitzii [Carex schweinitzii ]
trichocarpa [Carex trichocarpa]
lacustris [Carex lacustris]
scabrata [Carex scabrata]
hystericina [Carex hystericina]
pseudo Cyperus [Carex pseudocyperus]
longirostris [Carex longirostris, now Carex laevigata]
glaucesens [Carex glaucesens]
limosa [Carex limosa]
B. irrigua [joined by a bracket to the previous entry] [Carex irrigua, now Carex magellanica subsp. irrigua]
blepharophora [Carex blepharophora, now Carex castanea]
miliacea [Carex miliacea, now Carex distans]
pallescens [Carex pallescens]
umbellata [Carex umbellata]
        