
          that Mr. Everett has returned the sort of non committal 
 letter the proposition of our corporation, which means, 
 I suppose, that he will surely accept, if nothing 
 better turns up meanwhile. He is coming home 
 next month. 


 Mr. Albro sends his best regards to yourself and 
 all the family. 


 Now as to your botanical queries. 
 Scirpus spadiceus is founded on the plant of W. Ind. [West Indian]
 [Hans] Sloane. He gives Jamaica only as habitat. The plant 
 in his herb. [herbarium] is "West India, [Browne?]" only, and I note 
 "very likely different from ours, by its long spikes &c". 
 The plants in Herb. [Herbarium] Clayton, the syn. [synonym] of which cited is 
 our S. [Scirpus] spadiceus. Most likely Linnaeus had no 
 specimen when the Spec. Pl. ed. 1 [Species plantarum , 1st edition] was published. But 
 you see not only the locality but the name comes 
 from Sloane "spicis spadiceis" 
 Scirpus mucronatus stands in 1st ed., Spec. Pl.  [Species plantarum , 1st edition] just 
 as in the 2nd. which you have. I know nothing 
 more of it.
 Scirpus triqueter begins in the Mantissa. "Europe 
 Australi" and Linn. [Linné] adds "Culmus triqueter angulis
 planis, nec excavatis," while to S. mucronatus he adds, 
 (also altering the character a little) "Culmi 3-quetri [triquetri] [crossed out: [trianglo?]]
 trianguli, tricarinati angulis compressis. Mucro floribus
 multo longior, ad latus reflexus."


  Do you not imagine our S. [Scirpus] Americanus, or what 
 [do you?] call it of Kunth different from S. [Scirpus] triqueter of Europe?
        