
          August 17th 1849

My dear Sir

Your favour of the 25th April last was received 
in due course of time. For your opinions upon 
my plants & also the specimens of Cyperus iria, I am 
much obliged to you.

I enclose a few things which have been picked up 
since I made up my package for you. On a visit 
to Sullivan's Island (now Charleston) in May last I collected 
Eleocharis Nos 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6. On coming to study them 
at home, although there are slight differences, which might 
have been occasioned by locality, greater or less exposure &c [etc.], 
I am inclined to place them all with my No 1 (sp. nov.?) 
sent previously. I will however here record the few brief 
pencil notes I took of each on examining the fruit. 
My glass is not as strong as I would desire for such an 
examination, "No 2, style 3 parted, nut triangular, bristles 
retrosely scabrous, overtoping [overtopping] the nut", "No 3, Style 3 parted, 
nut biconvex? bristles scarcely as long as nut", "No 4, Style 
3 parted, nut biconvex, tubercle longer, corking, bristles 6." 
"No 5 Style 3 parted, nut obscurely triangular, rather gibbous on one 
side, bristles 6 as long as nut", "No 6, style 3 parted, nut  
biconvex, bristles 4? shorter than nut". 
        