
          unruled Fools cap paper suitable for printing
 labels on. Will you have the goodness to
 select me a Ream & send by the first opportunity 
 there is none here except ruled
 letter paper and but little of that.


 As soon as you get time I hope you will
 examine the few plants I numbered and
 sent you to name particularly the Carices. I wish
 to prepare labels for them also to finish
 the Gramineae & Cyperaceae firstly in sets
 for sending them away.


 Among the plants sent me by Dr. Gray is a set
 [in the left margin a drawn hand pointing right] labeled, Diareloena pumila I do not find this
 name in any of the books I have unless D. Americana
 be the same which ^ [inserted: name] is found in your compend. p 62
 without a description, also in Eaton's Bot. & in Beck
 p. 406 it is noticed as a Synomym under Festuca
 diandra Michx - giving P. de B. & Torr. as authorities
 I have no work on grasses and am at a loss
 to make out such grasses as are not in the
 Grass Book.


 The weather is remarkably mild
 here for the season, there is not frost in the
 ground and if I knew that Dr. Grays plants
 had suffered materially I could procure a
 fresh supply even now of most of the plants
 I sent him and keep them from the frost
 until Spring or send them on at any time
 whilst vessels are running between here and N. York. 
        