
          Providence August 11, 1845

My Dear Sir

Many thanks for your letter of the 7th instant. There is no order of
plants from which specimens would be more acceptable than Cyperaceae and
I hope that Scirpus atrovirens and brinneus will be among the number which you
kindly propose to make upfor me. It will give me pleasure to send you
thirty or forty specimens of the Eleocharis melanocarpa and procure more another
season if you want more. When you want anything freely ask for it, and
the number of specimens and if you wish it sent at once and if I have
it I will forward it [crossed out: at once]; if not I will mark it to collect.
I hope you will need much that I can furnish you. I send by mail
a catalogue of last years collections. Is there any thing in it of RI growth
that you desire?

Besides some more common Cyperaceae. I have met with that I
make out to be Ceratoshenus macrostachy, scirpus subterminalis, scleria
reticulater? Porlocanga scurpoides (sharing [?] but it is not quite late enough
for this) and what now surprised me ELocharis equestoides. The first
and last at [S reach?] pond, Cumberland R. J. the other at the same kind
descended in your mon. as a small kind on N. Prandenon RJ should he
Smithfield RJ.

I also have a xyris the leaves of which are very broad and of much
larger growth than the [spears?] so common here.The end of the petals? is slightly
[?].

I send parts of two of the above mentioned plants and a full length specimen
of scleria.

        