
          Recd. Apr 20th.]
Rochester March 31. 1840.

Dear Sir,

I wrote you a line some days ago, &
sent it by a friend to your city. I wished you would
send me some of your rare Carices, such as I
named. I should have added C. turgescens Ell. If
you have not the plant, will you send me his
description, as I have not access to his work.
I do not care for the popular descriptions, unless
for foliage, kind of it, grass like, rush like, or or some
thing peculiar. I hope I have his plant; if so,
it has not great bract leaves about the spikes,
like C. polliculata or C. intumesens. I want
too your C. alata; not to speak of others.
I wish you could look at your figure
of Mx. C. oligosperma if you have any.
For, it seems to me that C. Oakesiana is
C. miliari's Mx. Look at the scale on
your figure, & fruit, & all. The scale is
larger than the fruit. The numbers of
staminate spikes does not agree well too, besides,
the fruit is not acute, or turgidly ovate. Then
C. miliaris has sometimes two postillate spikes, leaves
[remote?] [& sessile?]; staminate [long pedunculate?], & so on. It
seems to me that what I called C. Oakesiana is C.
miliaris Mx. There may be difficulty about the leaves,
but it must be [erect?] & graceful, as it grows.

Is not my C. Baldwinii the C. turgescens? Ell.
Just look at it.

Mr. Oaks has sent me a
few to announce, which I shall do in Sill. Journ.
ere long. I can not do all I would on these
great things.
        