
          Send in your paper on my Carices.

Eriophorum [alpnin?], I [?] in quality [quantity?] in Stc.
Chara vulgaris. Now do not make an Algae of that
genus in your work. The stamens & pistil are plain you
can see them with the naked eye _ easily with a glass,
in right state the stamens standing below the [?]
it is monoecious - & tho' related to Algae, as all such
aquatics are, are not cryptogamous. Do not follow
that new plan, till you have well examined, & then if
you do, I may be at you, especially as you put Lemna wherre
you have.

To speak honestly of your Flora, I like it well, well
indeed. The general execution is certainly fine. For some
changes, you have your reasons, good enough, but I may
not know them. You point out the States, when Mass. &
Penn. would do as well, & your work would look less [?]
[?] with long names. Blitum capitatum, you say, grows near
Williamstown, should be Wms. College, is in the town, & in
other towns in the Co. Why do you put [?] G. [neglect.?]
under Gratiola in a [?], as it belongs to the
[?] part of the [?]. I sent you U. [coruta?],
from Mainfield before you heard of Dr. Porter. Lemna
triculca in Starkbridge, as with you. page 13, you say, "it
is remarkable that" etc. Now for living characters, you say
this bluntly better soften it such cases perhaps this sp. had no
sterile filaments. You have only one sp. of Muhlenbergia would it
not be well to say when the [other?] is gone, before you give it? I know
not when to look for it. [crossed out: [Tristum propunosmus?] - what is it?] I [?]
of you when sp. are here, tho' not [?] - that is well, as I
have not sent all, supposing you had them, as for some
other readson. I can only add that the work must do you
much honor tho' you may be called out a little.
And here I will stop for I have said enough. When
shall we have another No? The display of research is
well for you as a scientific man.

Your bugs I can not send. I have no cork as yet
but Mr. Wright will get me some this time. Can
you put up a few minerals to send by Mr. Wright?
Do send me some Basalt & Clinkstone.

[left margin]
Can not you send me C. [juipoidea?]? I inclose C. [alprotius?]. If I [?] that,
the radical peduncle is on the fig. likethis, from the root, withour [bracts?],
but not from the same stem as the others. With high [respect?]
C. Dewey
        