
          sent you are Panicum (v) & P. (h), but I
 cannot now tell whether you retained them
 or not. Thelatter is P. viscidum, sine dubis;
 the former I am pretty confident is P. scabriusculum,
 Ell. -- I am now cherishing the hope
 of seeing Elliott's Herbarium before the season
 closes. Young Elliott, who now has it, is Prof.
 Theol. in Columbia College S.C., & as I shall
 have to visit Columbia, if he has it with
 him I shall see it. I have lately written him
 to ascertain. I should like very much like [crossed out: like] to
 stand behind you & Gray while you were examining 
 this Herbarium. I may be disappointed
 in my hope of seeing it, as perhaps
 Elliott has not yet removed it from Beaufort.
 If I am gratified, you shall hear
 more about it.


 I am now expecting to reside in the
 mountains this summer. If so, I hope to collect
 plants hugely. I may be disappointed 
 in this however, for I may be called another 
 filed. I shall know in a few weeks.


 I recieved [received] a sheet of your Cyperaceae the other
 day, & am only the more greedy for more. Do send
 me the sheets as fast as issued.


 I enclose a small Rhynchospora which I
 take to be R. rariflora, but the fruit is not mature.
 You can tell it from its habit perhaps,
 while I have no specimens to compare it with.
 I collected in lower Carolina. If I prove correct
 in this, then I shall have collected 21 species
 of the genus in this State. Can you get me R.
 Torreyana [Torreyana?], capillacea, & macrostachya? What 
 thinks Dr. Gray of an exchange with me? I should
 like it much.

        