
          Wms. Coll. Jan. 13. 1824

My Dear Sir,

In Mr. [Lewis] Schweinitz Index of the Carices
he has changed the names of several from Muhl's [Muhlenberg's] names
& those by which they are known generally. This will produce
unnecessary confusion, & in the hope that with the
index is printed [?] the description, I write you to induce
you to make some alterations - for the [?] he has given
it up to you to be worked over as you see fit to do.
C. scoparia of Muhl. Grow., he calls C. ovalis.  After I 
saw this I wrote him, and he writes his regret that he
had made this change and the others should depend on it.
He did it, however. Muhl. [?] to call C. scoparia C. ovalis, 
and [attend?] it afterwards. But the past shows that Muhl.
found he has mistaken, or it is clear that they are
not the same, and he strangely suspects C. ovalis is not
an Am. sp., as he says. Now, has he the work, he
would call the C. ovalis of his Index, C. scoparia;
and C. scoparia of his Index to C. straminea in Muhl., for
they [crossed out] mean the same; & he would give to C. straminea
of his Index, which is, he says, the plant just so
called by Muhl. & not to Europe, & is fig. c in [Shk.?]
a new name. Now all this is [?] down, if it be
not printed. And if the Index be printed, the other
work can [?] the alteration, if you please.  As
has just [written?me for a special reason, [?]
[?] is [?], he is not likely to write you, & the
[?] as he supposes it too late. I wish he
had given me opportunity to [?] his work - for I
could help it a little I know, in two respects. All
        