
          Rochester Nov. 21. 1845

My Dear Sir,

Before I left Pittsfield last week,
I forwarded to you the large package of Carices,
you had sent to me. I covered the
whole with a piece of carpeting , & the Express
agreed to see the mass safely in
your hands at the College in Crosby St. I
found a few new species, not many, as I think,
but some. I have named & placed them in the
part of the collection, & also in the collection
where they belong geographically. You
mention others in your Herb. which I wish [added: soon] to
see, if they are undetermined.  Put your own
names on them, & let me see them, if you
please. I spent a good deal of time on the
package, & some troubled me, not a little,
as they was not good specimens. I fear that in
a case or two, I did not give the names I designed,
as I find one or two such, among the duplicates
I took. I did not wish to help myself to many,
but, for the [few?] I am much obliged. I kept the parcels,
my thanks, as you put them.

I know C. Backii, Boot [boottiana], as I suppose. Its resemblance
to C. Willd. is too great, I think. C. handelii K. [Kuk] is
the plant, western, that you mean, & has a nearly
globose & smooth fruit, but I doubt of its being your
C. Jamesii Schw. Ann. [?], tho' it may be, & I hope
it is.

C. Rossii Boott, was among the Carices
you had from Hooker, & is too close upon C. umbellata.

I have only the 1st part of Kuntz, & have tried
in vain to get the rest, as yet. Will not [added: you] send me
yours, for a month, by the Express?

I should like a new Monograph of Carices with
good figs., if it can be done, &, would like to
contribute my share. But, who will buy it at
6.00 a copy; not a hundred in our land, I wien [ween?].
        