
          peduncles bearing the fertile spikes being furnished
near their middle with a short [crossed out: illegible]
subulate bract, as in the violets- a character
new to me in this genus- habitat top of 
the blue hills near Boston.

Enclosed is a small specimen of a plant
found last year in Tewkesbury. I know nothing
of it.

I remain ever
Truly Yrs[yours]

B.D. Greene
        