
          [Stationery of the Office of American Agriculturist]

Dear Doctor Torrey,

Your enclosing grass 
came duly, but I was unable 
to look at it until this evening. 
It is Bouteloua aristidoides Thurb. [Thurber]
Dinebra [aristidoides] H.B.K. [Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth]
Eutriana [aristidoides] Kth. [Kunth]

A very small & undeveloped 
specimen. It is also Wright's 
751, col. 1848, & 2017 & 2019 col. 
1851. You probably have it under 
one of these numbers, if not I 
can give you specimens collected 
by Hays. I had heard of the 
death of Martins.

Very sincerely yours 
George Thurber
"Rex graminis"
vide Torr. ms. [Torrey's manuscript]
        