
          I should like to have your Illicineae, Styraceae
 & Bruneliaceae, small jobs, except the first.


 Have you Nama Jamaicensis? I should like 
 to see the real plant.


 The bot. [botanical] illustrations were sent at once, to be 
 retained by Adam's Express, New York till called for. 
 The parcel addressed to your brother, containing 
 Kunth vols. 1 & 2, your purse, and a pair of india
 rubber shoes left here, was sent to day.


 Thanks for the ripe fruit of the Scirpus, which
 I had already charactered "achenia ignota." Its name 
 should be S. [Scirpus] tripteris,  but Olney begs so hard for 
 immortality that I have not the heart to refuse 
 him so cheap at favor. 


 As to Scirpus capitatus, it is a pity that Brown
 should have sunk the original Linnean plant, and 
 taken up with Willdenous [Willdenow]. But you are spared all
 trouble as to [crossed out: taking up the] disturbing E. [Eleocharis] obtusa in
 your State Flora, since Linnaeus's (the Gronovian
 plant is not that species, at any rate, that is, 
 if my observation is correct; for I have marked the plant 
 in Herb. [Herbarium] Clayton as E. [Eleocharis] tenuis! The char. [character] too best 
 agrees with that. But would it not cost more jostling than 
 it is worth now, to go back to that name for tenuis? 


 Tuckerman is at the White Mountains, has not yet 
 returned. I should think he would gladly look over the Carices. 


 Curtis send me his mss. [manuscript] long ago, for N. [North] America. I sent 
 him down South, told him we knew nothing of Dr. [Nort?] in
 these parts, and that he had best fire his shot there. He sent

        