
          Rocky Comfort (Near Quincy) Florida Feb. 26. 1843


 My dear Sir


 Some time has elapsed since I received
 your kind letter of last October and I hardly know how
 it has remained so long unanswered - I am vexed to learn 
 that my new Eleocharis is taken up & Mr. Carey [John Carey?] seems to
 think that the other little thing (E. uncialis) is a variety of
 E. microcarpa  But the form of the nut well distinguished it from
 that species. By the way in pasting my specimens on Herbarium paper
 the other day I found among the specimens of Isolepis subsquarrosa 
 from Oneida Lake or Fuirena squarrosa (or pumila) (I forget which)
 received from you fragments of an Eleocharis of which these appears
 to be no description in your Monogr. Cyp.  It seemed to be gathered
 with the other plants -- The Rhynchosp. Grayana & the other R. pusilla
 it seems to me ought to form a section of Rhynchospora, Carey thinks 
 they belong to Isolepis  But, although not mentioned, I supposed that
 Genus to destitute of a tubercle - You must look sharp before you
 decide on the doubtful Carex  I cannot believe it to be any var. of C.
 dasycarpa  It is a much stouter plant in every way & it grows on our
 most arid sand hills where sterility and Poverty grape contend for supremacy
 we should hardly suppose it to be a luxuriant form of that plant which
 usually delights in the richest Hummocks -- Quercus sp.  Nuttall must
 have made some mistake about his Q. cinerea. I have [crossed out:no] known
 that species for years & I do not remember ever to have seen its
 leaves lobed in a single instance. [crossed out:But] It certainly is not that plant.
 But I have not seen the acorn -- You are doubtless correct in
 your reference of the Rudbeckia triloba  My only specimen was a very luxuriant
 one from the West and looked very different.


 In a recent package of plants from Boissier I found the Schoenus
 nigricans, L. which looks exactly like my West Florida plant & is doubtless

        