
          would examine all my Carices with attention, which I
now find. C. [scoparia?] seems too various to be all
one.
I found a new Aronia on Saddle Mt.  it wilted
badly - now the specimen is poor. I can not make it out.
I called our Elymus a new species  is it so? I think it
undescribed.
You ask for grasses & cryptogamia.
I send you now many of both. The mosses I examine
a little - the genera I think to be generally correct - for
some however I will not vouch. The species, except Mni
um cuspidatum, & one ot two more, I can not tell. I
have no means, & little time. You will doubtless find [several?]
numbers of the same kind. The circumstances of
collecting them & putting them up, made this unavoida
ble, unless my knowledge be greater than it is. I am
waiting to get a few more in fruit - which you may
get next Oct. Of grasses - a few. The grasses vex me.
And they compel to the conclusion that I know very little in_
deed of botany. I find some new ones perhaps. I have put
them all up very much crowded, that they might occu
py little room. Did I imagine they [were?] to be kept in
this state I [never?] would send them. But I supposed you
would distribute such as you wanted in your herbarium,
& in that of the Lyceum. By the way, perhaps the Lyce
um intends to keep separate, as implied in the regulations,
specimens from Cor. members. If this is [?] by
the Lyceum very well. But if they wish to distribute
those I send in their herbarium, I wish them to do it.
And if they wish any record of the gift, they can say on
their records that I have sent some plants, which they
have thus distributed. These remarks you may think not 
wise, & I will not maintain the contrary. I make them
for this reason - it must be inconvenient to examine
different parcels for specimens of the same genus. It
seems desirable to bring them together. I wish the Ly
ceum to do this with mine, if they wish it.

I have sent you several of those you asked for - the
Sambucus is sad indeed. I was obliged to neglect my
plants, & it [nearly?] spoiled. It [?] to have a [larger? & [active?]
portion of the principle of distruction in it. As the
season advances, I hope to get you more. The Pinus
[?] holds it leaves very well. [?] of the others will
all be off.

By the way, we have here no Cynogloform [Cynoglossum?]
[conuolotum?] - it was Myosotis, as I wrote you before 
no Lillium [?], tho' it seems to grow 40 miles to the E.
no Monarda allophylla, (tho' I sent you one by mistake,
which was from abroad) & no Pyrola minor, I much fear.
I have just got [Pholoris arundinacia?] again - grows in a swamp
in abundance, but not cespitose like that in the gardens - the
panicles etc. exactly alike however.

[right margin] P.S. I can not tell you when the box will reach you [?] but I think about the time of this letter.
I need not tell you, that when I find two [?] of the [?] , ours is staminate & the others pistillate.
[?]
is [Conx conoidia?], & an Aralia, perhaps A. [calundulacca?], but it was [?] [brought?] from a distance, & no leaves with it _ doubtful that you can
readly tell it. I sent Angelica atropurpurea? It some resembles A. [briginnata?]. you omit [?], but differs from the one I call so, which
grows on wet land, which the other was on a hill. I should like to hear from No. 18 and the Nos. of Carex unheard from.I have this
moment learned that the box will not reach you under 10 or 14 days - I regret - but can not help it.   C. D.  

        