
          Ad. [Answered] Sept. 23rd.

Ipswich, Sept. 10, 1841.

Dear Sir,

I had the pleasure 2 or 3 weeks ago of
recg. [receiving] your letter just as I was starting on a visit
to Plymouth, where I spent about a week. I was unable
to get Utricularia greenii, in consequence of the waters having
risen this year in the ponds, which are without outlet, &
very much in height in different years. Where it grew in
a few inches of water [added: in 1839] there is now nearly two feet. My
notes are in the house somewhere I doubt not, & I hope to
find them, or to get the plant another year. [erased: illegible]

I looked for no new
plants, & found none, my only object being to get full notes
from fresh specimens of the old ones. I had the pleasure however
of finding Cyperus Grayii [Cyperus grayi] abundant on Plymouth beach, which
I also found a few years ago on Plum Island 10 miles north
of Ipswich, so that it is doubtless to be found on most of 
the beaches of Mass. [Massachusetts] & I dare say of Connecticut, having
been overlooked [crossed out: for] [added: as] the common species. I also found Salicornia
ambigua of Mich. abundant on Plymouth beach. Pickering formerly
found this in Gloucester in this county, & I found it at
New Bedford in 1829. I see you neither notice this or mucronata [Salicornia mucronata]
in the N. [New] York Cat. [Catalogue]. I presume you do not consider this perennial
plant a variety of herbacea, from which it is also [crossed out: so] different
in other respects.

The only reason why I have given up the expectation 
of doing the Ericaceae, (for I have had abundant leisure
at various times) has been the impossibility without books
& comparisons of specimens of my doing justice to it.
At the same time, if you really think that what I
could do would be of essential service, & save you
time & labour, which I rather doubt, I shall be glad to
do all that I can, & will as soon as the season
closes, in October, pay immediate & steady attention to the
study of the order. (I have already done nothing as

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Please make my respects to Dr. Gray & thanks for his list of Asters. I will write (with some plants) him soon. [added: (with some plants.
I wish you would give me your opinion as to the standing of my Robbinsian species.
I send you 2 sheets from H. [Occig.?] by mail. I expect to send you at the end of the
season all my Plymouth plants & some from Dr. Robbins put up by himself.
        