
          Rochester oct. 13. 1859

Dear Sir,

I hoped my last letter
would reach you before you should
answer the other. It did not, so
that they passed each other. I have
waited for your reply, if it might
come, & shall wait a little longer.
In the mean time, I wish to say
on your last.

The White Mt. plant, called C.
lenticularis, I know not by whom,
I [rcvd?]. from W, Boott Esq. But,
it is too removed to be the true
one, & can be only a var., if it is
even that. It is too much like
C. torta, & yet too far from it.

I am glad to know that Carey
named C. concolor by its true
name. Your supposition is right
doubtless, that Boott saw it
in your Carices. I think too,
he found it in Hooker's, which
he published far after C. lenticularis,
he gives C. concolor as the same.

        