
          Recd. Sept.


 Dear Sir,


           You expressed a wish, last
 spring to have a few copies of my little
 Discourse on Grasses.  My son is going to
 Albany in a few days, & I [illegible] the
 opportunity to send them by him.


     I also send, to your care, a few spec:
 imens of our yellow- flowered var. of 
 [illegible], for Dr. Barrett, of Middletown,
 Connecticut - who says he is studying
 the Maples, & wished to have specimens
 of that variety.  I find, unexpectedly,
 that this yellow-flowered var. so far as
 I have examined it, is constantly sterile-
 though Marhsall speaks of it as having
 "yellowish flowers and seeds."  it is, as he
 says, even more common here, than the
 deep red flowered var. but I have never
 met with any that produced fruit: a fact
 which I had overlooked, until the present season.


    You will oblige by sending the parcel
 to Dr. Barrett by the first opportunity.
 I shall inform him it is at N. York,
 & perhaps he will get some one to call for it.


                                   Your truly,


                                             Wm Darlington
 Dr. Torrey, N.Y.


 West Chester, Penn.
 Aug. 27. 1841
        