
          The little aquatic, which I enclosed in a letter
 to you, I procured fresh specimens of, the day after I
 sent it, & gave it a new examination. I now refer
 it to the Order Salicariae [underlined: Salicariae], & think it an Ammania,
 some species of which have the Calyx 4 toothed. I
 erred in stating to you that the Stamens were hypogynous [underlined: hypogynous];
 they are inserted on the Calyx [underlined: Calyx] a little
 below the segments. Can you find any distinctive
 characters besides the 4 toothed calyx, by which it
 might constitute a new genus. I think I shall
 call it A. hypobrychia [hypobrychia?] for the present. By the
 way, I want you to reserve for me all the new
 N. Carolina plants which I send you, that I
 may concoct an original paper from them.
 You have in your possession two veratrums [underlined: veratrums], one
 Andropogon (allied to your A. glaucum) a doubtful
 Kuhnia, & a doubtful Lobelia, & perhaps others
 which I cannot now recal [recall?], which I should like
 to describe if you have no objection. The vanity
 of discovery & authorship is fastening upon me.


 The Scirpus or Rhynchospora about which you
 write, I cannot now send to you as my specimen
 is in Wilmington & I do not expect to see it before
 Spring. I compared it most diligently with a true
 specimen of R. [added: sparsa!] [sparsa?] & could not find a
 shade of difference in the stem, leaves, & panicle.
 The description of it which I have by me is thus --
 Spikelets cylindric-ovate, sessile & peduncled, with
 from 40-60 glumes, which drop from the rachis as the
 seeds ripen; Glumes ovate-lanceolate, acute; Stamens 2.

        