
          I cannot now tell what time I shall have for herborizing this
 season, but as my duty will take me regularly into the mounainous
 district I hope I shall have better opportunity than
 last year for investigating the Alpine species. I shall
 always take pleasue in collecting for you. All my difficult
 and rare species go to you first. I shall try [underlined: try] to furnish
 you a good collection next Autumn.


 Accompanying the Monograph was a Catalogue of N. Haven
 plants. Carl [added: ?] tell me how I came by it. It was very acceptable.


 I have just recd. a box of beautiful specimens from Short. They
 have been lying in Phila. a year!


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 Prof. John Torrey
 New York
 N.Y.


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 N.B. I shall be very glad to recieve [receive] the
 sheetsof your Cyperaceae [Cyperaceae?] as fast as
 they are [?] that I may be able to complete
 my catalogue.


 I forgot to mention under R. miliacea, that I have a specimen, (collected 
 late in teh season when the flowers had dropped from the
 base of the spikelets.) which, judging from the rachis, must have
 had 50-60 glumes, & the spikes must have been cylindrical.
 Filaments 2 -- Bristles 0 [0?]. -- This plant I once sent to you under
 the name of Scripus (h) [underlined: Scripus (h)]; you returned it undetermined. I
 have carefully compared it with R. miliacea, & can find no
 differences, except the above mentioned.
        