
          [Shepardess?] belonging to D. [Merritt?] & Son, &
I have paid them for putting the box on board
a sloop or packet for New haven. But if you
can find time, I wish you to see the sloop & find
out about it. The sloop unloads in Coenties'
Slip, & will be at N. Y. before this gets to you. I
fear they will fail to send the box by the Shepardess,
& send it in their other Sloop, the beginning of
next week. I say fear, because I can not tell
her name for you to inquire for her.

I was at Troy last Tuesday on business, & saw Ea
ton for only a few moments. He seems in high spirits ,
etc. His Manual is printing, but not rapidly, I
think. He has my books yet I did not inquire about
yours. I have [purchased?] [Pugh?], a beautiful copy in
[Calf?]. And I doubt whether Salix rigida & cordata
are the same. Can it be that Muh. should give a fig.
& [Ph?]. say he had seen a living sp. of each, & both be
mistaken? They are described so much alike, that they
can hardly be different, unless the S. cordata has
leaves far more cordate than those I sent you. Be
sides Mx. called S. rigida. S. cordata. I [see in Ph.?] This
is in favor of the plants being one. [Ph.?] talks often
in a way which leads me to doubt whether he had
always seen, or always [recollected?] accurately what he
tells us. Carex bromoides grows on dry ground, he
says - Muh. say on wet, & [him?] it is always on
wet land, and in small bogs. I have seen too other
like instances. I sent you last year Prunus [hiemalis?]
& have more this year, & I found another Prunus

        