
          Manchester N.J. may 24th 1844


 My Dear Freind.


 Your letter sent by S. W. Torrey was
 handed me a few minutes before he left Manchester
 Though I saw him when he arrived and several
 days in succession there was no mention made of a
 letter from you until the last hour. - Your letter
 mentioned if I could get a parcel to N.Y. Med. Col.
 on Monday (no date) you could get it - The vessel
 had just gone - by which I had sent a box of living
 roots to Prof. Gray and no other ready to sail immediately
 - I think however that when Mr Torrey
 comes to Manchester next time he will come
 by way of Princeton if so I can send by him
 if not I will bring it up to you about that time
 myself I would sooner but cannot now leave home.
 Mr. Field's plants are in a state of forwardness and
 I hope to send them by the next opportunity. -


 Tuckerman has sent me more than 70 species & vars'.
 of Carices - mostly foreign. - I think I mentioned one
 of my former letters that Tuckerman said I had sent
 him C. Salina - Yesterday I visited the locality
 and collectd all I could find about 15 or 20 specimens.
 I compared it with a foreign specimen he
 sent to me and think it compares very well - Yet
 I think it too much like C. glauca to be distinct
 I have forgotten whether C salina is put down as
 one of the synonyms of C. glauca (or C. flacca) by
 Dr. Boott. I have mislaid the copy of his [letter?] which
 I made at your house last summer - Tuckerman 
        