
          postmarked 1 Aug 1842


 Rocky Comfort January 1 1842


 Recd Jan 25th
 Ansd Oct 20th


 My Dear Sir


 Two letters of yours (April & May)
 have been received for a long time & answer delayed
 in the hope of looking over the first part of Vol II
 That number reached me yesterday!! This is dispatch 
 with a vengeance. But it is a good New Year's Gift
 So you have done up the Asters & no little job neither
 Last night I went over my collection with the Flora before
 me  Your descriptions answered admirably in all the tribes except
 Ericoidei & Dumosi [?].  These I cannot make out to my satisfaction
 While I think of it I will make a few remarks on some of
 my plants -- The Styllingia [?] acuminata is not wholly applicable
 as I found it in low flat places perhaps S. palustris would be 
 better. -- Baptisia leucantha, T & G [Torrey & A. Gray] is the plant to which I referred 
 in a former letter -- It is rather common along the banks of 
 the Apa. [Apalachicola?] river -- I send you a specimen -- Two species of Eleocharis 
 (tessellata [?] & uncialis)  The former comes next to E. quad.[quadrangulata?] It has an exctly
 triangular culm. The latter must be near E. pygmae judging from
 the description but it has a triangular nut. (See packages)
 A Rhynchospora (R. anachaeta [?]) no trace of Bristles -- It has some 
 resemblance to R. filifolia -- I hope Dr Gray will [crossed out:illeg word] permit
 me to dedicate this interesting species to him as some acknowledgement
 for his valuable monograph -- The Myrica (M. obovata) I desire with 
 your kind permission to call Myrica Torreyana - will you please
 enter it as such in your Flora -- I know of no other plant within my 
 gift more worthy of such a name.

        