
          Providence Sept 4, 1846

My Dear Sir

I thank you for the notes on the [?] so kindly communicated
by you in your letter of the 26th ultimo.

In company with some friends I spent the first week of last month
in the south part of the state when we picked up some few plants not
on our list. Those of which I had doubts I sent to our friend Gray
& among these one which I called Hypericum adpressum Barton
first noticed by myself on the banks of the small pond in South Kingston.
In reply he writes that he had no specimen of H. adpressum in
his [Hoist.?] and adds "but of my recollection seems me right your
plant is the very thing send a specimen to Torrey on a letter
and ask him to compare" I enclose a specimen and should
be pleased if you would write about it.

I have difficulty with the group of Scirpus in Knuth Enum.
2 p. 159 (2 spicae germinae etc. etc.) S. debilis I suppose is clear
enough. To Scirpus mucronatus Linn. Knuth Enum. p. 161 shall I refer
those that I find with "stylo trifido" like the enclosed specimens?

Is that [added: part of the description [crossed out: right] applicable to the fruit of the plant] achenio obsolete transverse undulato suguloso certainly it does
not appear so under a coddington lens. I neglected to try [crossed out: it] one as an
opaque object under the large microscope and finally to neglect
other parts of the description ought a plant like the enclosed to
be put under the term "aphyllo"
        