
          consequence in the case who is the author of the [piece?] in the
Annals. For if your name is to have any part of the honour, & I
hope it will, you can not concede too much on the right of my publishing
for in relation to myself, you put yourself in the same situation
as if any other man had begun to publish Conices after I
had begun, or as [crossed out: if] another [added: who] should begin in the Phila. Annals next week
would place himself in relation to you. The world will decide for me here.
But I tell you, as I told you before go on I wish to have you do
it And I did not say, you acted dishoronably not did I imply it 
for I can not do so; but I could not well help turning your own
reasoning against you, & showing you that if I acted dishonorably
in relation to Schw., you stood in the same situation in relation to me 
not that either you or I were doing contrary to what my principles
fully permit & sound reasoning required. And no history of that
Monograph can seem to me to alter the case, even on your principles,
unless you publish Sch. Mon. just as he wrote it, & on my
principles, not even then. If I said ought in my letter contrary to this,
it was not what I intended  I wrote briefly, as now  but I hoped, intelligibly.

Now, I say with you, "I hope we will differ no more"  but as you
began upon me, surely you will allow me to end  or, as often as you
[repeat?], suffer me to reply.

I hope Dr. Barrett has recd. my bundle of Carices, sent him 
I have not heard from him, since I forwarded them to Hartford for
him. I believe I have not adopted any of Schw. species, which you have
not, at least so far, except that C. gramlorioides, which would not
have been done, if Nuttall had told the truth of his C. [auora?].
Bt the way, you may credit it to Goat Island as also C. alba,
& C. [Ardui?], to the Canada side, which threw out Schw. C. irregularis on
my authority, if you please when you come to them. I have a figure
of my C. Barrattii to come out ere long & if you had heard, the name,
White Hills of N. H. as often as I have in N. Eng., you would not wonder at
my calling them so. I am glad to hear of your better health hope
you are fully recovered. The Colleges send no other official notice of a
degree than that in the papers. I wish you would say so to Prof. Davis. The
degree is the thing the diploma is another. Now there is not a diploma
for D. D. in all New Eng. If you wish a diploma, I can get one such
blanks are sometimes prepared.

In the Monograph why do you write, in the English, bractea for bract,
& not gluma for glume, or spicula for spikelet. This mixing Latin with English,
where we have the word in our [Cognogs?], is always disapproved of. In
p. 302, you say the scale of the print, is half as long as C. rosea, that is, half
as long as the plant itself. You wrote me that C. jamesii is the same as C.
Wildmanii  & yet you do not say so under C. Wild. & yet, you do not give
C. [fomesii?], that I see. Will you tell me, what is C. Davisii? & C. Barrattii? if I
know them  or you had them when I was with you. I wish to make some more
friendly remarks on the paper so far, for your good in the rest of it but I
have no time or room. I should like to hear from you . And now, I
        