
          Providence September 17, 1846

My Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your letter of the other instant.
I have been waiting to acknowledge the receipt of it hoping to have some plant
of the order to forward you.

Yesterday I picked up the enclosed [Cyperus?]. Is it the Grayi? it was found 
on the sandy banks of Narragansett Bay at Nayat Pt. Barrington R.I.
I saw in a creek making up from the Bay near the same place the
new scirpus growing just as profusely as at the first locality on the
Seekonk river and just as barren of fruit.

I got the Scirpus mucronatus about this time last but it was not
until a short time ago that I gave it an examination for the simple
reason that this time last year I was running after the same order
of plants that our friend the Cambridge botanist wastes so much
valuable time over. I will visit the locality within a week or
so and get specimens for you. It grows on the banks of a pond
but a short distance from that where the Psilocarya is which [last?]
plant is in bad order this season. The plants are so diminuitive that
they have but a single spike or so on each.

I am glad that you will look at the polygonum. I enclose a specimen
(Providence R.I.) I sent it last year to Mr. Casey who wrote me that he
thought it an undescribed specimen and that he had found it at
(I believe) Bellows Falls. I have his letter nearby to refer to
He desired me to send a specimen of it to Doct. [Doctor] Gray which I did
        