
          Providence July 28, 1846

My Dear Sir

Sometime during my pleasant
visit to Cambridge, I remember that you
remarked that you had been looking into the
Iunci lately. I send two enclosed : one
like that which Doct [Doctor] Gray received from
Mead of Illinois, and another (immature)
that grows in sand near salt water
though I believe I have seen a form of it 
with [more?] leaves growing inland. Will you
favour me with their names? of course if I
use the information I shall acknowledge
it as publicly as I use it.

You were pleased to say that when
you run over your Algae you would remember
me when you found duplicates. I shall
feel under obligation to you for this additional
mark of kindness. I do not intend to
run away from my first loves the sedges

        