
          like to have Nuttall's Rocky Mountn. [Mountain] & N.W. [North West] species, 
especially of such as he has named, in order to verify 
my own. I rejoice to learn that you have 
so good a prospect of obtaining Florida & S. [South] Carolina 
& Georgian plants. They are the most interesting 
next to the extreme western ones. And, of all 
places in America I wish a collector to be sent 
to Santa Fé in N. [New] Mexico. I was on the point of 
sending a very able one, Mr. Gardner, but so 
many offers of assistance were made if he 
would go to S. [South] America, that I sent him off to 
Brazil 3 weeks ago under the especial patronage 
of Lord Edward Russell, who will probably
take him in his vessel to the Pacific.

The bookseller Richter assures me his affairs 
are settled & he is ready to go on printing the 
Flora Boreali-Americana. The printer only 
awaits his orders to put to press.

You ask if the N.W. [North West] Coast & Californian Cyperaceae
of which I spoke to you in one of my letters 
are the same that were sent to Nees for examination. 
I do not think I sent mine, because I know that 
Lindley sent his & they are mostly uniques with
me, which I would not give to Nees & which of 
course he could not wish to examine, for
Lindsey's is I apprehend a fuller set than mine. 
Indeed there are comparatively few in that [?]
or else Douglas was more attracted by other 
things. There are a few from [added: Dr.] Gardener [Gardner] &
[?] (N. lat. [north latitude] 52°), but they became still
rarer in the north. Boott is working at a 
monograph of Carex of wh [which] he has seen & examined 
nearly 400 species. He asked the loan of all 
mine & every species I possess is in his hands 
at this moment. Both he & I are grievously 
in want of native specimens of C. fraseri [Carex fraseri].
        