
          Rochester Sep. 18. 1845

Dr. J. Torrey L.L.D.

My Dear Sir,

Your package of plants
came safely, & your letter followed close
upon them. I find a host, but few
new; tho', I seem to see some new ones. I
have looked over great proportions of them,
but can not finish them just yet, I fear,
as I go east awhile.

I see, as you say,
that they are in the state of nature, &
need to be clothed & settled in the world.

I send you the description of C.
[crawii?] for your use, as you proposed.
It seems to differ from all yet
found, & if there is no mistake at
[Waterloms?] is well. Dr. C. has written
me again about it, & it looks
fair, so I say.

C. Crawii D.

Culm 4-8 inches high, erect and leafy.
Staminate spike single, oblong, with a scaly
bract at the base, & with oblong obtuse
scales, tawny on the edge & green on the
keel; pistillate spikes 2-3, oblong, cylindric,
leafy-bractiate, erect, rather closeflowered, &
the lowest rather long pedunculate; stigmas
three; fruit ovate , oblong, tapering above to a
        