
          Chapmanii Curtis [Rhynchospora chapmanii Curtis], caduca Ell. [Rhynchospora caduca Elliott], ciliata Vahl [Rhynchospora ciliata Vahl], cephanthus Gr [Rhynchospora cephalantha Gray], 
cymosa Nutt. [Rhynchospora cymosa Nuttall], divergens Chap. [Rhynchospora divergens Chapman], distans Nutt. [Rhynchospora distans Nuttall], fascicularis Nutt. [Rhynchospora fascicularis Nuttall],
filifolia Tor. [Rhynchospora filifolia Torrey], glomerata Vahl [Rhynchospora glomerata Vahl], Grayii Kth. [Rhynchospora grayi Kunth], inexpansa Vahl [Rhynchospora inexpansa Vahl],
microcarpa Baldwin [Rhynchospora microcarpa Baldwin, miliacea Gr [Rhynchospora miliacea Gray],  patula Gr [Rhynchospora patula Gray], plumosa Ell. [Rhynchospora plumosa Elliott], paniculata [Rhynchospora paniculata],
variflora Ell [Rhynchospora variflora Elliott], Torreyana Gr [Rhynchospora torreyana Gray], also both species of Ceratoschoenus 
(olive Rhynchospora)

Your offer to send me some of the rare Northern Cyperacae 
is very acceptable, I assure you, & these species
particularly (all of them) which you have described would
be highly prized as authentic specimens for comparison
hereafter. I have received liberally from Olney of
R. [Rhode] Island, & some from Dr Mead of Illinois, but very 
few of the Cyperaceae from the last.

I am very respectfully
H W Ravenel.

I can scarcely venture to make the request, yet, if
in your rambles & hours of recreation, you are in
the habit of picking up the humble Cryptogams that
come in your way (& I know that to the zealous naturalist
all these things have their charm) may I not bespeak 
a portion of these treasures. I see occasionally in Schweinitz
"Synopsis Fung. in Am Bot. &c [Synopsis fungorum in America Boreali media degentium]" an acknowledgement of debt to 
you for specimens. Here is a new & almost inexhaustible
vein in the great mine, at which Botanists for 20 years to come
may work successfully. I have new about 1000 species of Fungi
& am daily adding to the number, of Lichens new 200 species,
Mosses new 100, mostly all collected in the vicinity.
        