
          seeds and roots of southern plants is more than I can now
promise, though I shall be glad to do it if my future situation
(as yet undetermined) will permit. I have no doubt that Dr.
McRee will engage in such a collection with great pleasure, &
I will address him on the subject. Some of the most interesting
plants are extremely shy of cultivation, and the seeds of many
will not germinate as I have proved. If you will make out
a list I will endeavor to collect them.

In regard to your list of plants from my package, I am glad
to be confirmed in several things, and to be corrected in some 
important errors. I have detected a few in late examinations.
I put them up in haste, well knowing that you needed no aid
of mine in determining them, and had well nigh sent a Triglochin 
for a Plantago, having so labelled it before my eye
fell upon its peculiar fruit. I you find oversights of this
kind I shall not be surprised, & much less so at errors of
ignorance. I have had no facilities for comparison of specimens
until very lately since my return, which is very necessary
in extensive genera where books often differ very widely.

I take the liberty of making a few remarks and enquiries
on your list. Panicum (f) & P. (w). If I recollect aright I
collected them on the same spot and hesitated upon their identity, 
but finally separated them upon the characters you mention.
In addition to which I note also, that P. (f) has its stem
compressed; calyx valves more acute, accessory valve shorter, than
in P. (w) which has a round stem, & the accessy. [accessory] valve compressed
& singularly incurved at the point. My notes of obscure plants
were often hastily made and need reviewing as they may not always 
be correct. I give them therefore little worth.

Paspalum (d), which you call P. notatum [Paspalum notatum], Trinius, (so I make
out the author, he is a new species to me) I had referred
to P. distichum, Ell. & Muhl. [Paspalum distichum Elliott & Muhlenberg]. Are they the same? Why is the 
name altered? Pasp. purpurascens Ell. [Paspalum purpurascens Elliott] Is it not P.
plicatulum Mx. [Paspalum plicatulum Michaux] the same? The descriptions do not materially
differ except in the character that Mx. [Michaux] takes his name from.
        