
          a few Orchidae. Among them Aristhusa ophi-
oglossoides. as I call it, just found  here for the
 first time. I should have sent some more, but
 as those collected this year, [?] scattered thro' my
 papers, I could not get at them. Indeed I had so
 little time to pack them , & was so hurried ot be
 ready for the Stage, that I had not time for
 thought & solution - but was obliged to take 
 thosw which came first. I since wonder that I
 did not think of a few others for Prof. Agardh.
 But I feared delay for another Stage would make
 it too late. I can not prepare in so great haste
 again. The difficulty was increased by the absence
 of our President, which increases my labours.


 I wish you to examine a few of the plants I
 sent you last Fall. The one I called [Lichia?] major
 must be Cistus canadensis, my last letter to the con
 trary notwithstanding. I now have it in perfect
 flower - certainly is Cistus - but flowers later than
 I have known before - is a higher plant & more woody
 than any specimens I have from the other places. The
 two little [horns?] of the calyx seem to belong to other [?]
 of the calyx. I had high authority for calling it what
 I did, as well it looks now.


 Scirpus acutus is half way between S. acutus
 & S. lacustris, Muh. It inclines more to S. acutus -
but the culm is attenuated above - it gradually
 grows another from the middle, & the stem is
 partly hollow now, & daily becoming more so.
 The [?] Andropogon? what is it?
 Cyperus strigosus - is not it Scirpus [retrofortis?]
 Muh.?

        