
          The Books which you sent me were recd. in good
 order. I am greatly obliged to you for this service. The
 5th Vol. of D.C. [D.C.?] I hope you will procure for me as soon
 as it is to be had. Would D.C. [D.C.?] Syst. Nat. be useful to
 me? & Nees Cyp. Indicae? -- I shall be glad of any
 works which ou think I ought to have. If you have 
 not purchased the Annals of the N.Y. Lyceum, you
 may omit them for the present. There are other
 works which I need more. Beck & Eaton however,
 I want to recieve [receive].


 Your Monograph is a great treat; I
 have been over it several times. But I cannot
 clearly make out two or three of your species
 which you accredit to me. I wish you would 
 give me a full list of all the Cyperaceae recd.
 from me, including Rhynchosporae, with the
 catch letters or numbers annexed [underlined: catch letters or numbers annexed], so that I
 may [added: have] your species with certainty.


 I am a little surprised that you overlooked a
 spike of Cyperus tetragonus! which you retained
 from my specimen. -- What has become of your
 Carex Curtisii? have you given it up? -- Are you
 sure that C. alata is more than a form of C. foenea?
 Did not Croom send you C. venusta from this State?
 C. panicea I ahve from Canada as well as from Moss. [Moss?]
 and suspect it is native. -- C. verrucosa Ell! differs from
 his C. glaucescens! only in having numerous staminate
 spikes. -- your reference of Fimbristylis congesta to me
 must be a mistake, I think. -- you remark that you
 have never recd. Scirpus atrovirens from the
 States. The [?] have it in the W. part of N.C. and I saw

        