
          Rec'd July 11
Columbus Ohio June 9th -39
Dear Sir

I have just returned to Columbus 
after an absence of 8 or 10 days & found two letters
from you of May 5th & 27th. None of the parcelsyou sent me have yet arrived, though daily expected.
One of the letters requires an immediate answer
on the subject of some appendages to the micoscope
Dr. Gray is having made for me. I wish the Dr.
by all means to have every thing added to it tthat
is in the last degree useful or [crossed out:[?]] convenient.
Your remark of the phenogamous plants I 
sent you were very acceptable. No. 5 "Carex [vencarea?]?"
was a very imperfect specimen. I had found last season 
but two poor specimens, this reason after I sent th
plants I found perfect ones and readily perceived 
that it was as you think C. lacustris. No. 6 C.
paniculata or decomposita [?] I had located this
plants, thereabouts, with [testiuscula?] (where by the by, there
appears from the books to be some little uncertainty)
but the description of the fruit if I recollect right did
not seem satisfactory. No. 10 & 11 I am glad to find
are [erysimum?] arkanseaum [arkasana] & the Aronia arbutifolia
as I though. Their existence [added: here] particularly the first
was very unexpected. Of the [erysimum?] I have collected
abundantly this season of the Aronia I have found
        