
          of Muh. As a genl. [general] rule, that [law?] is a good one
but I can conceive of some Botanists [being?] at Phila.,
to whom it would be proper for the Soc. to show it. I
hope you had a peep at it.

Have you found out that strange plant, you sent me, of
the 20th [?]? I call it Torreya arinaria, & shall
publish it, when I get a fresh specimen so that I can
describe it. By the way, give me the description of it.

I intend to inclose in this letter a Jungermannia I found
lately J. tomentella? I think I have a new moss but I
have not time to look at it, I shall send it another time. You
inquired of me about Jung. tridenticulata (I think it was) viz.
whether I found it in fruit? but I told you I did not know
it as I had lost it but I have since found it - but I never
saw it in fruit, tho' it is most abundant here.

Dr. Cooley, who sends you plants, has been exchanging
with me - but I doubt about some of his Carices 
some are wrong, as I wrote him, I will know - his
C. trichocarpa does not look hardly like mine - & C.
umbellata, which I sent you as C. distans? seems to me not to
agree with C. umbellata of Muh. You have not seen all his
Carices - but I wish I know what you had named. He is very active,
& very [?], for aught I know - but in this troublesome spe
cies, I want certainty, where the name is given without a query.
You will not, of course, say to him what I write you, tho' in itself
it would not be improper. He sent me Aspid. [sufidulum?] as Wood
wardia [?]? But it certainly is not any W. in Eaton, & I do
not believe it is a W. It comforms badly with one you sent me,
if I [?].

I have lately [rvd?]. bladed tremolite in quartz
from Vermont. It is a curious plan for it  & is bountiful. Also
handsom schorl in quartz from Ticonderoga the [?] is
of [?] is very fine.

I want some carbonate of iron
[immensely?] - & soon more phosphate of iron very much.  & I
could dispose of a little chromate [do/also.?] very readily. I intend to send
Mr. Prince a box. I wish I knew what he would want most. I
have sent you so much, that I suppose you have supplied
him with specimens. Let me hear from you, & soon.

Your friend  C. Dewey

Dr. J. Torrey
        