
          papers are often meagre, & do not
 show geograp'l [geographical] range sufficiently, in
 so intricate a genus. I have here & there
 thrown in one from my own folios, which
 are much richer than your's [sic]-- as a whole.
 As to the Foreign species, I have generally
 followed Tuck'n's [Edward Tuckerman's] [E___m?] unless when I
 objected to it-- & you will find my notes
 in many instances-- which you will just
 take for what they are worth.


 I sent to [Francis] Boott about 1/2 a dozen
 P. India [?] things from Herb. DC. [De Candolle's herbarium] that you
 might have them correctly named, & also
 some 3 or 4 quiddities-- C. Nuttallii [Carex nuttallii]-- 
 C. pallida [Carex pallida] Mey. &c. which he will return
 at his earliest convenience. You will
 see by my note in U.S. plants-- the
 two specimens he has from the Collec'n [Collection]
 You will observe that I have cut &
 carved up your papers where species
 were mixed-- & I trust upon the whole that
        