
          Rochester June 9, 1854

Dear Sir,

I write chiefly to thank you
for that copy of Fries, you was kind
to send me.  It tells one part of what
I desired to learn. Though I know
you care not for such acknowledgement,
yet I feel so truly obliged that I
wish to relieve my own mind by
telling you so. On the authority now
before the world, C. disperma is
a living [crittur?].

Boott mistook by confounding C.
disperma with C. [appaerostachya?].
The latter is C. vitilis Fries, I suspect;
for the name, vitilis, accords
with it, & C. disperma is not vitilis
like.

Will you be so good as to send
me that name of the author of the
Carices in the Linnea.  I forgot
to take the name of the writer.
bracket: O. F. Lang] I wish to know also; who

        