
          Manchester N.J. 2nd June 1847


 My Dear Friend


 Your acceptable
 favour of the 26th Ult. has been received
 for which you will please accept my
 heartfelt thanks. - I am as your communication
 intimates in better quarters
 and can operate with greater convenience


 Only about two weeks since I went
 out for the first time to collect specimens
 and then I collected only Cyperaceae to
 fill up some gaps in my sets - Last
 week I went to Egypt in pursuit of what
 I think may be a new Carex but did not
 visit the original locality and failed
 also in finding it in similar situations


 But besides obtaining a good supply 
 of Carices I met with a Cruciferous
 plant I have not before met with (at
 least in such quantities and [appearance?]) and
 a purely white flowering Lupinus perennis
 which I observe is accredited in the Flora
 to Oakes & Curtis' I inclose a specimen of
 the Cruciferous plant and also a flower
 of the white Lupine - I have collected splendid
 specimens of Carex exilis this season
 with two and sometimes three adventitious
 spikes - Shall be off again in a day or
 so in search of more Grasses & Sedges -  
        