
          Wilmington May 18th 1836


 My Dear Sir,


 Three or four days since I found in
 a pile of pamphlets at my Father in law's Gray's Monograph 
 of Rhynchospora. How it came there nobody
 knows -- but I judge that it came to this place in my
 absence, was laid aside for me and forgotten. You
 may judge of my surprise and pleasure at this unexpected
 discovery. It enable me to look over my Rhynchosporae
 and settle them all with one exception. The
 R. microcarpa [microcarpa?] I have not yet fully proved. I also
 found among my specimens the R. Baldwinii [Baldwinii?], & R. fascicularis [fascicularis?].
 The latter is the is the plant which I mentioned
 in a letter to you last winter as being, I thought,
 the R. cymosa [cymosa?] of Ell. I think the two plants very
 clear, thouh I have but a single specimen of each.
 I allude to there, that the locality may be known.


 I discover some verbal errors in the Monograph,
 which, however, Dr Gray can very easily remedy by
 reading it carefully over. -- Under R. miliacea,
 Newbern [underlined: Newbern] is given in connexion with my name.
 I sent you this plant from Wilmington [underlined: Wilmington].
 (Rhynchospora inexpansa [inexpansa?]) grows here, the most
 abundant of all the species.) -- Figures 18 & 19 on
 the plate seem to be transposed, & should change 
 places. 
        