
          are desirable, others can be omitted until a more favored opportunity
for their publication. I dislike the idea of making two
papers of them, but in the present uncertainty of my future
situation I know not what I can do better. I desire to hear
from you within a week. If inconvenient to write, let it all 
pass, the subject is of no consequence to me.

Allow a few remarks upon some of my plants. The specimen
which you call S. [added: Scirpus] simplex I had never settled. It does
not agree exactly with Ell's [Elliott's] description in the following particulars. 
Stem 3 angled; midrib of the glumes green and distinct
enough, unless he means simply the nerve, margins chestnut 
brown. Some other particulars he has omitted, especially
in regard to the remarkable seed. Rhynchospora (e)
I did not suppose was R. capitellata of any author, I only 
remarked a similarity in two three particulars to the 
plant which I considered as R. capirtellata [of Ell [Elliott], not of
others. Rhyn. (n) I had referred to R. capitellata of Ell. You
have made it new, and allied to R. biceps, Tor [Rhynchospora biceps Torrey]. I had
marked it as having a closer affinity to R. glomerata [Rhynchospora glomerata] than
to any other species known to me, though certainly distinct.
I have never come to any farther decision in regard
to it, and my reference to Ell. is doubtful. The R. (e), R. 
(d), R. (g), R. rariflora (mentioned as resembling that species)
and I think another small species allied to R. alba, I had considered
as undescribed species. My Fuirena squarrosa
I considered indubitably the plant described by Mx. [Michaux]  "paleis-
pistil. muticis; setis brevibus. The plant is described
the same way in Encyc. [Encyclopédie] Methodique, but by no other 
writer with whom I am conversant. The F. squarrosa of others
I thought a distinct species, but the distinctive characters
are wholly beneath the glumes. The question is, whether
they are invariable. In my plant they are uniform. Neither in
young or old specimens are the petals (?) awned, or the alternating
bristles longer than the pedicel of the seed. I have examined
a hundred specimens. In a Fuirena growing at 
Mass, the bristles are uniformly long, and the petals awned even
in old age, not cordate at base like Ell's [Elliott's] descript. [description] & plate.
        