
          Recd. [Received] Apr. 20

Rochester Ap. 14. 1858.

My Dear Sir,

I have spent much labor
over those 22 various Carices from
the Mex. Bound. [Mexican Boundary] Survey. I have
satisfied myself about them. In the
paper I have numbered them, 1, 2, 3 etc.
for convenience of reference. No. 3
C. [Carex] marcida Boott, I had much of from
Nebraska Ter. [Territory] & Boott's own determination
of it, so that it is right.
All the others have been found before,
& are plain, as I think. To some I
have given names, as you asked me,
& you will use them or give others.
No. 9, I can find nothing like it, & it
comes in a good place, looks look [like]
a 3-stigma plant, but it is not, & has
an ovate, convex & [?] perigynium.
No. 13. Only one specimen, if you have
another, pray send me one, nothing
like it in all my references. So different
from C. aquatilis, & unlike all
the rest of the family.

[Sorry I have no more
J.T. [John Torrey]]  
        