
          Williams College Aug. 12th 1819

Dear Sir,

If you have many correspondents, as punctual
& troublesome as myself, I am sorry for you. But you
will be [?] by the consideration, that I shall run through
our curiosities & my troubles before long. For at this rate,
you will soon be familiar with all the vegetables [?] one.

I hope indeed to find some more new to me here - but they
do not show themselves often to my [wandering/wondering?] eyes. Your
letter came to me in duetime. I return you my thanks for your
attention to my plants. I hope the new Carices have been acser
tained beforer this, & [?] others out last fall. I have
exhausted my means of ascertaining them, unless I get some
[?] sight. Your remarks demand some answer. The
Rhodora was from [Granby Mass?]. E. of Con. River_ it was
given me as as Azalia, & I did not look at it, as to genus.
The Poa pratensis had not but 3 [nerves?] - I examined 20 I [?].
This led me to call it P. viridis, Atho' the true P. viridis, shook
my belief a little. But I found a [Sorantis?] waning in the
last which Muh. gives it - & so I [miscalled?] it. I had much
do not know enough of the grasses to learn them. I had much
rather an Aster or Carex. And besides, I often reject a
name [?] our paarticular is difft. [different] from the description.
Of Xylostum solonis - I believe, if Mx's description says [?]
distinct, he neversawthis in flower or fruit. The [?] too are
purple. But Dr. Big. says Mx. does not allow [?] descrip
tion of "baccis distinctis"- & he thinks Ph. never saw the plant.
You have the means of ascertaining the [argument?] of iMx. & Ph.
on this plant. Let me know the result. This X. is abundant
in Worcester Co. Mass. But I have not heard of it any where
about except here & in that Co.

You are right about the Monardica, as I believe
for I have long been in doubt about it. Eaton called
it Monardica, & then gave it up. It wnet by two or
three names here. Calyx 5 & 6 cleft, corol 5 & 6 parted
        