
          Ansd. [Answered] July 25, but the Carices
to be referred to again.

Penn Yan, June 5 1840

Dr. Torrey, Dr. Sir, I am peculiarly unlucky in sending to you
for the package of plants from Buckley. Twice have I
sent letters by my neighbors who promised to put them in
post office, but it seems you have not received them or 
I should have heard from you before this time. The first letter
I sent was lodged in the lower branch Post Office, which the
man thought was the right place. If not received by you
I wish you would get it, as I forget what it contains.
It was sent about the 10th April. The next one I sent about
10th May, but whether it was put in the Post office or not
I don't know & I now send directly to you, hoping you will
receive this & send the plants where I can obtain them by
an early opportunity. I wish the package directed to me
& left with Gross & Fordham 55 Front St. One of my
neighbors will be in the City next week & will get it.
Also if any more numbers of the Flora are published, 
please send along & also if perfectly convenient to share 
a copy of this year's Geological Report. I am doing but
little in a botanical way this season. If I find anything
rare or new & secure it & in the season shall pick up
many good things. I shall visit Rochester & Lake Ontario
in August & among other things will try to get a
goodly quantity of Hydrocharis & Cyperus schweinitzii.
If you desire any plants that grow in my vicinity
send a list and if possible I will obtain them.
I have seen your catalogue of plants reported to the
Legislature, & by some parts of it am somewhat confused. 
I had thought especially that my Caricography was 
pretty well straightened up, but you have put me out
in a measure, for instance on page 186 C. [Carex] oligocarpa
Schk. [Schkuhr]. Why was it ever called Sartwelliana if a good
species, & then why was the former name resumed, or is
it something new to me? Again, why do you think
C. [Carex] hitchcockiana a variety of C. oligocarpa, its habit is very
different in this country & localities not at all alike. C.
oligocarpa grows on very dry gravelly banks on the sides
of ravines & C. hitchcockiana in damp shady woods or moist
meadows along with C. anceps, granularis & blanda Dewey
        