
          rays unequal, somewhat recurved [recurved?], slender, smooth, terminated 
 by a loose subcylindrical spike of from 20-35 
 spikelets; Spikelets [underlined: Spikelets] deflected, 3-5 flowered; Glumes [underlined: Glumes]
 short, mucronate, nerved, decurrent on the rachis, yellowish
 with a green keel; Calyx [underlined: Calyx] 2 valved, lower valve
 lanceolate or subulate, the upper ovate, obtuse; Filaments
 3; Style 3 parted; Seed oblong, bangled [bangled?].


 I lately sent you by a passenger in a vessel
 a letter enclosing $50, with diretions for its use.
 If you can comply with my request in regard to 
 the purchases so that I can get the books this
 Fall, I shall be very greatly obliged. Accompanying
 the letter was a small [underlined: small] package of plants,
 mostly Mosses.


 On a late visit to Newbern I met iwth Croom [Croom?],
 who gave me several interesting plants from 
 FLorida. He had a parcel for you. I am sorry that 
 he has not more energy of character, fo rhe cannot
 bear the drudgery of collecting & preserving plants.
 What do you make of his Taxus-like [Taxus-like?] plant; &
 what of the Smilaceae [added:?] plant? --


 Is not Arenaria glabra, of Ell, the A. patula Mx?


 I have been delayed in my return to the 
 upper country by the loss of my horse, & prevented from 
 going through Salem as I intended. I expect to
 leave here on the 23d. for my former field of 
 labor. Please to address me when you write
 at Charlotte [underlined: Charlotte]. I mean if possible to find
 the Carex Fraseri this spring. I have learned
 the locality from Hooker.

        