
          Hypnum too, & some others. You know this [?], in [relation?]
perhaps to all of  them, but I shall send you specimens.
That, which called Fontinalis, is now finly in fruit. I thought
the old fruit had two peristoms, one of teeth, & the other
a flat membrane. No doubt you are right - but I must
look at some fresh ones. Polytrichum undulatum is hardly
forward enough for the cap to come off well - but I mean
to send you specimens. And yet, perhaps they grow
in abundance about you.

Our Phallus impudicus is like yours. I believe I told
you, that it comes up only every other year  at least,
it does so near me. This is the third [crossed out: year] [added: summer], it has
come up thus. Last year, none; year before, it appeared;
year before that, none; but [?] [?] still, I noticed it
for the first time. Does it not take two years for the 
[end?] to come up?

Of Fungi, I have found several today - but I can hardly
get them to you. A Clavaria  perhaps, which I think I never
noticed before - hard, black, clumped stump of a thing,
3-4 inches high.

By the way, do send me without fail, Michaux' description
of Oryzopsis asperifolia, verbotim [verbatim?]. I want it much &
soon. E. James says his figure of it, much resembles
Our new species. But a fig. of O. melanocarpa can not
resemble it. And Bigelow says our O. melanocarpa is
Mx'. plant. But I want to see what Mx. says. I am
ready to send to Silliman.

I have got the Gyrophoros today. You said those I sent
had no fruit. I know one had not - but on G. villea
were the beginnings of fruit - & now they are not
very prominent, if the black knobs are it. On the other,
the fruit is distinct enough. On what rocks do those
grow with you? I never saw them except on [quartz?].

        