
          PS  Will you adopt the Leucospora of Nuttall?  I tried long ago to find good
characters for it & could not.  It can only be a S. G. [sub genus] it differs fr [from] Capraria only
by habit & corolla obtusa, the capsules are not properly 4 valve as N [Nuttal] says
nor is the corrolla tubulose!

Gy G. [genus] Helepta 1825 is near to Espetitia H.B. but differs by Perianthe
almost simple [illegible] & seeds obovate.

When will you Lect [lecture] in Princeton end & what will you do with yourself after
wards?  Dr. Short appears to be very active he says to have sent 700 plants
this spring.  There is a package for me in the way.  I sent him plants last fall
I wonder how he can collect so many & dry so well.  He must travel in his carriage
with a press & 2 bales of paper!  How can Dr. Gray get 100 specimens
of rare grasses! to make up his 100 sets!

I think the N. [new] plants from Cedarbridge is a Cistus! or Hypericum!  I have a 
specimen with imperfect seeds & calyx given me by Mr.  Carr!  Could it be the real
C. galioides but I have the S. Carol. [South Carolina] sp. & it is difft [different] or a new anthelis! [Helianth]
I remember to have seen it in 1803!  collected by Kinn & called a Ciston!

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Doctor John Torrey
Prof in the University
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New York

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PS.  I have both the Cunila glabra you speak of.  I showed you one from
Kentucky long ago.  What is the character of this N.G. [new genus] Meromeris!  Give me yr [your]
name for the N.G of Dracocephalon from L. [lake] Ontario.

PS.  You do not mean to adopt my G. Hedychloe 1820 (Kylingia pumila)
Since you have it not in y [your] list.  It is however a better genus than Rhyncospora &
a dozen such splits from Scipus & Cyperus!  If the number of Stamina is not essential
in grasses Oryza & Bambusia are not genera.  [crossed out:nor]  It is as essential as the number
of valves etc.  which are mere bracts!  But of systematic blunders there is no end &
but slow mending.  So on with my few N. Genera of grasses of old! Diarina etc.
        