
          Boston May 1829


 Dear Sir


 I recd [received], I am ashamed to say how long 
 since your obliging letter with the names of the
 plants I left in N [New] York. Your names will be of great
 assistance to me, particularly in the carices which
 genus I had really been afraid to attempt having
 no plates to [assist?] me no local flora & no herbarium
 to refer to for confirmation of opinions, or removing
 doubts. There are two or three species of scirpus in this
 neighbourhood which I cannot make to agree with 
 any of the descriptions. One of them you will find
 enclosed, this tho' [though] not a very magnificent [crossed out: plant] specimen
 is still much larger than it is often found. The Sc. [Scirpus]
 lacustris (Edinburgh) which you found with the plants
 was the Sc. [Scirpus] lacustris var. glaucus of British authors.
 You say of the Junci there are many more species
 than are described or else there are too many already,
 I suspect however paradoxical it may appear that 
 there are both too many & too few. I have no doubts
 that several of the species still remain to be described
        