
          a Carex growing in great profusion in open wet meadows
which perfectly unites the two varieties - being precisely intermediate.
I will set down the [added: striking] characters of all in
short.
1. elata - distans-inflata
2. mediacris - approx. sub.-inflata
3. tenin - approx. non-inflata
4. nana - subsinplax non-inflat

I think it probable that these
are a very few (2 or 3) plants in the White Mts. which I
have not found, the region though too limited in extent 
to support a great number of plants, is yet too extensive
to be thoroughly examined in every part, at all seasons
without [added: much time] [and] great labour, especially with the obstacles which
now exist in the [?] of any shelter on the top,
patient attendants &c.[etc.] but Crawford will have completed
this fall a carriage road more than two thirds the
distance to the mountain, and probably next season a
house on the top, so that future botanists will
be able to examine the mountain with little difficulty.
As to Pursh, I must say, that I have not the
least confidence in him, unconfirmed - the reasons for
which I will state at full length at some other
opportunity. I specify where I think he misrecollects
or guesses at random, and where he actually lies,
as to specimens, I can furnish you fine specimens of common
plants & rarer ones, trading specimens, also fine in general,
of the same, of most N. E. [New England] Plants & in many cases to
and almost unlimited extent in number, you have
always stood first on my list of Exchanges & I
[crossed out: ?] do not often] collect a plant apparently [save?] in interesting
without thinking of how many you may want.

I have bought of Mr. Nuttall the herbarium of plants 
of the Alps [added: from ?] (about (900 species) price $50 dollars,
but the specimens are not so good as I wish &
there are few cryptogamous plants among them.
In general I want 1st good specimens (if possible)
of plants of N of Europe, England, &c[etc.] particularly
in the difficult genera & those species the same or
nearly the same as ours, for comparison, 2nd Plants 
of N. England which I have not got, fine spec.[specimens],
if possible, if not a scrap or any thing.
        