
          Style 2 cleft half way, 1/3 longer than the glumes; Seed
 round oval, small, rugose, margined, with a short conic
 tubercle. Bristles 0. Hab. swamps -- Fl. Sept. Oct. The
 specimen is rather old, & you sent itback as "too old"
 to determine, though its characters seem to be clear
 enough. I once thought of calling it Scirpus fistulosus [underlined: distulosus], the
 stem being hollow, until I concluded it might be a var.
 of R. sparsa, & there it has rested these two years.


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 Harford [Harford?] Store [Store?]
 Sept 7 1836
 Prof. John Torrey
 New York 
 N. Y.


 With the aquatic plant I enclosed n my letter a 
 specimen of Rhynchospora which have said nothing of.
 What is it? I also sent you a Rhynchospora last winter
 or Spring which seems to me allied to R. paniculatus.
 What do you call it? I collected it in Lincoln Coy. -- 


 What can I purchase Drummond's [Drummond's?] [?] Americani
 for? Is it worth the money?---- yours truly
 M.A.Curtis.
        