
          Manchester, N.J. Sept 5th 1844.


 My Dear Friend


 On the same day, I forewarded
 a small parcel & a letter to Princeton by
 Mr. Torrey's team, for yourself, I was not a
 little surprized in blundering accidently upon
 a plant I had not before seen either living
 or in a dried state - it was not difficult to
 ascertain the Genus to which it belongs by a
 reference to your Monograph of Cyperaceae. - It is
 decidedly a Ceratoschoenus - But it is not quite as
 easy for me to make out the species; It is
 clearly not the C. macrostachys for I possess a
 specimen of the species, and it does not at 
 all compare with it, in form & general appearance
 with the exception of the fruit &
 bristles - But it does not fully agree with the
 description of R. corniculata. of Gray's mon. Rhynch
 Pages 205-206 - Particularly in size, my plant
 is only about 1 foot to 1 1/2 ft high - The leaves
 overtopping the flowers - Bristles about twice
 the length of the [nut?] slightly
 curved - The base of the culm turned and slightly
 bulbous so as to split the ^ [inserted: outer] radial leaves for an inch
 or more, the culm too is distinctly groved [grooved?] or
 channelled on one of its angles, the other angles
 somewhat rounded or obtuse - leaves & culm striate
        