
          new plants to you. Buckley is now in Missouri. I don't 
know but he has written to you. He informed me that he
thought he had found two new Carices & some grasses, 
& a new Saxifraga on the Virginia mountains. I soon
expect a list of what he has found this season.

If Buckley tells me true, Barratt does not possess acute 
discriminating powers enough to determine difficult plants. 
If he is a great botanist, why does he not publish some 
of his discoveries to the world?

You did not say whether you recd. [received] my last letter, or what 
plants you wanted of this year's collection. I have collected 
a great many specimens this season, but only few species, 
say three hundred or so. I have many duplicates of what 
I think rare, that is such as I seldom find. Since 
my last to you I have found a Saggittaria [Sagittaria] that is new to 
me. Viewing its inflorescence alone I should call it S. [Sagittaria] heterophylla 
(which I never saw, unless my plant is it) but the leaves differ from 
any described in the books. In fact there are no proper 
leaves, only a petiole, clasping at bottom about six inches 
& terminating in a point, three cornered, very much resembling 
the Scirpus triqueter. Root numerous, coarse fibres, scape 
10-12 inches high, smooth, flowers in 2 to 3 or four verticils, 
pistillate ones sub-sessile, staminate, one short pedicels
        