
          am for your beautiful specimens of N. [Ne]w Jersey &c plants. 
Let me notice one peculiarly interesting plant, your
Juncus "triglumis." It is not so; but it is one that 
I should as little expect to have from the state of
N. [New] York, namely J. stygius. [Juncus stygius]. I have compared it 
with Norwegian specimens & tis the same.

Nuttall is certainly a queer fellow & the English
botanists generally complain, as well as you, that 
he has not treated them well. He certainly does 
contrive to get access to most interesting plants, 
& I wish he would be a more liberal with such as 
he may have in duplicate. His Petalanthera [hispida]
I recognized at once & I am delighted to see a figure 
of the Lewisia. I quite long to hear the result
of Nuttall's journey. He will have been generally 
to do southward of Douglas' beat & doubtless will
find many new plants. But, seriously, you 
and the Greens should send out an able collector 
to the Rocky Mountains, the finest field
in all N. [North] America; & the further south the 
better. Some of the fur companies would
render him assistance & remove obstacles,
which would be serious impediments under
other circumstances. Had you not a collector
in Florida? & what is become of him?

I must write to Dr. Gray & thank him for
his most beautiful vol. of grasses. If he likes
to send me half a dozen copies, I think I can
dispose of them. You shall see the Botl [Botanical]
Journal where I have announced the work, & I

        