
          Recd June 16 1843
 And. July 20th 1843.


 "Post Office Wood Lawn"
 Lincoln County N.C. May 27th 1843.


 Dear Sir


 After considerable delay I have lately placed in 
 the hands of a merchant a box of plants for you, consisting
 of additional specimens of all marked with an asterisk
 in your letter, except one or two; besides a few others which
 may be of some service. Pancratium mexicanum grows in 
 shallow water in the Catawba River, Lincoln Co. N.C. and affords,
 during its flowering season, quite a gaudy exhibition of coarsely
 torn, or fimbriated flowers. Carex nigro-marginata, is rare. The specimens
 are a little diminished in size from being grazed by cattle. Malva
 papaver (triangularis, Seav) grows sparingly in this county. Sabbatia coryrubosa
 var. augustifolia is the prevailing form in this county. I have also sent a 
 specimen of two more of the Panicum ("undetermined") incorrectly labelled
 Poa compressa. It is common in our meadows, & makes, when well
 cured, excellent hay. Panicum clandestinum? which you considered
 a new species you will be enabled to reexamine. Sobelia puberula, 
 var: is probably new. It is very smooth all over-the upper leaves
 & calyx somewhat conspicuously dentate. It may constitute a new species
 of this, however, you can determine. Poa eragrostis var: with remarkably
 long spikelets I have never seen before. My specimens of Baptisia mollis
 are from Lincoln Co, N.C.; Michaux found the same in Mecklenburg Co.
 Dr. Schweinitz near Salem, and Nuttall on the Catawba Ridge.
 "Poa rigida' you say differs from Elliot's and is new. In this opinion
 you are probably correct, & to enable you to confirm it I have sent
 you specimens collected this Spring. It has the aspect of a diminutive

        