
          & unions enough.

In Minerology, I have looked but little
[Jessup?] was here the othe day from Phila. [Philadelphia] & he appeared very well
indeed. He has much of an eye for minerals, as I think. I sent you
[Tornolite?] in Quartz this summer. [Jessup?] thought it Zoisite & an ex
amination, so it proved - it is Epidote certainly. And on one of my
specimens is foliated Chlorite _ it may be on yours. Friend [Grisnorn?]
has just sent me some Minerals - a few are new to me, & rare - I am
glad to get them. I have some good Anhydrous sulphate of lime, which
was picked out of N. [?] [?].

You said my Funaria hygrom
itrica diffd. [differed] from the [?] what is it? [Lidum?] palustris, how
distinguished from L. latifolium Ph. says one has [involute?] leaves 
Nuttall says all have.

I have given a Prodromus of the
Manual, 3rd Edition have you seen it, in the papers? For I
have not tho' I hear it is in some of them.

Eaton & the Dr. Becks have been examining [?] Co.
Last Thursday they were west of us, & came over in the P. M. &
spent the night - & I had quite a confab with Eaton. Dr.
Lewis C. Beck was with him, often whom you have named
that Bidens. I do not like this termination Beckii & Puh
ii, etc., I would have it off, & say Beck & Puh. He is very [page torn here]
[?] to Latinize Sir-names - indeed only by Botanists, I
believe, among the English.

I have just found Carex dysperma, 2 feet high - leaves
that [compared?] with the [culm?] Is it C. tenella? or, are
you at a loss? I feel much disposed to make some new Cari
ces. By the way, I have found C. oligocarpa; such as
Muh. discribed - that I sent you, differed some, both in
shape & situation of the capsules - they were too [?] & too
obtuse - but this grew in a woody [?], & the
others in open meadows. The capsules too were rarely obovate, but
these are - they are varieties of the same plant, I think. That
little new Carex, I have not seen this year. Cinna arundina
cia [arundinacea?] grows of all shapes & [sizes?] - I never saw this one either till this
year. May I not hear from you ere long. Can not you send me
an [Arithocuros?], [Arnida?], [Chuotophyllum?], [Cenchnus?], [crossed out]
Atriplex, Astrogolus [Astragalus?] etc.

With high repect your friend  C. Dewey
Dr. J. Torrey

        