
          You said you had some remarks on the minerals, I sent you.
How did you like the Actynolite? it is almost the [glossy?]. Did you
find the fibrous in it? I am now doubting about the [Prose?], I
sent you found by Eaton east of us. It appears very more some
of the [?] of Middlefield, & I now suspect it is the same 
very hard indeed, but less hard than quartz. In a few days I
hope to settle it. At present I can do little in my Laboratory.

The following plants you have not mentioned, which I wish a
look at. "Elymus virginicus? [page damaged?]?" Elymus hypotrix of Eaton is
E. hystrix of Muh. - yet you say E. virgincus [virginicus] of Eaton is E. hystrix. Do
you mean they are the same, tho so difftly discribed in Eaton.
"Bromus ciliatus?" the [same?] with B. [perhrams?], think you? It does re
semble yet differs from either discription. Andropogon [?]? Stockbridges
Viburnum pyrifolium. [Taconick?] Mt. - [fruit?] is it so? Scirpus triqueter, [illegible]
ish Mt.   The Ribes - any new remarks ? I sent fruit of R. glandulosum?
A Polygonum or two, which [plagues?] not a little. Hypericum [assynoidis?]?
the hairs clasp a little. [Hadysorum?] or two - right? The Eupatorium or
two, want your look: No. 14 Solidago & so. No. 17.
That Sparganium. Aspidusim [Aspidium?] spinolosum? [spinulosum?]  I suppose Eaton
means Polypodium [?] for this - but know not.
Aspidium [dibolotum?]. Asplenium thlifteroides [thelypteroides?]. The last box
but one had 3 or 4 cryptogamia. No. 1, 2 & 3, you do not speak of. No. 1. is
the same as No. 5 of the last box, as I have since found, in a [poor dried?]
state - [illegible] it may [away?] with itself.   There are several Nos. in the last box,
besides Hypnums, which I hope to hear from - a Little red fungus, I
believe No 32 - but I will not specify. No 31, I saw by a specimen you
sent me was [Parmelia?] stellaris. No. 29 has some of the same with
a yellow plant - it was the yellow I meant - tho' I sent both to
show you what it grew with, tho it often alone. Are they both the
same? - they seem difft. to my inexperienced eye. I believe I
sent you, one ot two hard ones - Bolitus, or like it.

The
[Lumna/Sumna?] trisubea has a No - it was from Stockbridge - I found it
with Potamogeton, & know not what I put with it. It is a curious
little plant - I would not imagine what it might be. I felt very
sure those were leaves of [Vollisncria?], & I was very glad to find them
in the County.

I have now some beautiful flesh-coloured
Bitter Spar, from Middlefield. The [Comina?] are [?] [cross-wise?], so
that it seems a mass of little rhomboids, looking exactly like some
carbonate of lime. This with beautiful [green slate?] - & is fine, I
think. That Serpintine too, is fine - is it not?

I am not
insensible of your attention to my plants - I [?] my obligations by
this letter. Can I aid you in any way. My Catalogue [needs?] re
vised by this time - I think of sending you a [letter/better?] in the spring.

With much respect, Your Friend

C. Dewey

[left margin]
You spoke of the analysis of one or two minerals - Do they come in Silliman's Jour
nal. By the way, what has come of that work - I have not the 5th No. promised long ago.
I thank you for the [?] of a piece of Gibbsite.

        