
          I am also very anxious to see Gray's Melanthaceae.
 What has he made out of my veratrum pulchellum?
 I hope that will not turn out to be Helonias graminea.
 Is not Hel: gram: the veratrum august:? But I suppose
 the Monog: will settle all that. -- Did I ever ask
 you if bimicifuga [?] Americana, Mx. was not Actaea
 podocarpa DC.. I should like to know. And also, if
 Thalictrum ranunculinum W, is not Actaea palmata.
 I do not [added: know] as that would be a greater error in Wild [?]. than
 the "six capsules" to his Wendlandia.


 You describe Lipocarpha maculata as having
 a stem 3 angled, & so does Ell. My plant has [added: it] not so.
 The stem is compressed & 2 angd., the base being
 almost [underlined: almost] 3 angd.. I have examd. numerous fresh
 specimens. The leaves & invol: are not keeled, but
 convex below [crossed out: & w]. In the same way you have both
 agreed in giving Eleocharis simplex a terete stem [underlined: teret stem], while
 my specimenbs ( you have some of them) have the stem
 acutely angled, like E. tenuis. -- I will enclose in
 in [sic] the letter a specimen of the Eleocharis I spoke of in
 my last letter -- also, a Lipocarpha; & also, a small
 Cyperus. What do you make of them? -- I found,
 a day or two since, Eupatorium linearifolium? with
 leaves & branches in 4s. I found abundance of it &
 this was its general habit, though it varied with
 leaves & branches in 3s, opposite, or alternate.
 Style much longer than the coral [coral?] Leaves linear, entire,
 one [one?] line wide, obscurely & nerved.

        