
          dence [Providence] Mch 16, 1868

My Dear Doct. [Doctor] Torrey

I found my lens in an
inner pocket : putting the most valuable thing
of course in the safest place.

Please look at inclosed perigynium
from a Californian plant. It [allies?] are
C. amplifolia [Carex amplifolia] with a smooth [?] perigynium
& C. scalvata [Carex scalvata] with a hispid purely versed
the inclosed is covered with a douny [downy]
pubescenum so much so I thought at first
it was a fungus growth. The whole plant
is so clothed and if new I shall
call C. sartwelliana Olney [Carex sartwelliana Olney].

Will you do me the favour to examine
and tell me what you think of it.

There is another Californian near C. [Daviyi? [Davyi]] [Carex Davyi]
that I propose to call C. Bolanderi [Carex bolanderi].

You don't know how much good it did
me calling on you the other evening.
        