
          The two species of Scirpus, which thou hast pronounced to be but one
 even from the same place and even collected at the same time, as was
 likewise the Coreopsis rosea. I begin to think the spot deserves some
 celebrity for the Botanical treasures which it contains. And besides
 all these there was a species of Solidago growing there in abundance, for 
 which I could find no specific name that satisfied me. None of 
 them are yet in season. I will find further specimens of all the plants
 requested as soon as I can obtain them. The only one yet in flower is the
 Orchis herbiola. I found that about three miles from New Bedford &
 intend to visit the spot again in a few days.


 I have requested a friend in New York to call at the Lyceum
 and take care of any parcel he may find directed to me. As I have
 never possessed an herbarium, except of the few most remarkable
 plants that I have met with in my own collections, I do not know
 any better way of making a selection, than to say, I shall be happy
 to receive any which thou mayth find it most convenient to send.
 The Monograph of Carices will, I presume, be a useful aid to me.
 I have consulted no other books in my attempts to study them, than the
 Manuals of Bigelow, Eaton and one or two others. I intend now to consult [crossed out: refer]
 the articles entitled 'Caricography' in Silliman's Journal. I recollect
 a long article on the subject in the "Annals of the Lyceum" but not
 the title of it. It was in the winter when I saw it, and as the study of 
 the Carices seemed to me then to be a discouraging subject, I did not
 give it much attention; I only recollect it was a subject of some discussion
 one evening when I attended a meeting at the Lyceum.


 Thine,
 Thos [Thomas] A Greene.
        