
          Rochester Aug. 25. 1845.

My Dear Sir,

I have just taken your letter from
the office, & have looked over the carices I have, &
that you sent. I believe, I wrote you a good while
ago, as a mere opinion on that Carex from Sartwell, as
I have rcvd. it from him after he had sent to you. I had
no doubt then, & have none now, that it is C. Davalliana, Sm., small, slender; has too long spikes for
C. dioica L., & agrees well with specimens from Germany, &
England. On your [specimens?] you have a few of the [?]
print, but they were collected too late, & the tips of most are
gone, so they are less like C. Daval., but enough remains
to know the shape. The spikes are shorter, &
fruit fewer than the European. It seems to me too
remote from C. dioica.

It is long since I had the pleasure of a line from you.
As you said you had Carices for me, & as I wrote last, & asked
for them, I concluded you must be too busy to attend to my
small wants. I have rejoiced in your success, & name, in
your honor of L. L. D. I shall be glad to aid in honoring
you. I will look over those Carices, you speak
of, now, soon as may be on their arrival, as I do not
go to P-d for five weeks. Put in any you have for
me, of the [?] from the S. & W. & N. of America, &
Sandwich Islands.

As I am able to write by return
Mail, I do it.

I sent you two years ago, Euonymus atropurpureus,
& E. americanus, as I called it. It seems to me, you called
the last, something else, but I have mislaid your letter or
lost it. Do you recollect? The shrub has flowers & fruit, just
like E. atropurpurius [purpureus], except yellowish flowers, but leaves [with?]
[?] In our yards it is called [?] [?].

I have a new Carex from Dr. Crane. C. Crowii, I send one.

        