
          time ago to Profs [F.] Schwaegrichen, [Jean] Montagne & 
Hooker. From Prof. Schwaeg. only I have received an
answer, upon his authority depend the names of that
portion. Drs Hooker & Montagne send word though
Dr. Gray that they have them under examination.
(Now about 15 months!) & will write soon. However
I have just sent them (discouraging as it is) each
another set exactly like yours. Besides a set to
[George] Brush & [K.Fr.] Schimper and another to [?] esq.

Since I sent you last I have discovered an error
in the name of one of the mosses which you will
please correct - i.e. - "Phascum patens." This [?] named
"Phascum patens var [majer?]" It is however "Schistidium 
serratum sp. nov." Hooker & [?] in Drummond's Louisiana 
Mosses. A singluar moss [?] in quite an old state
there is not the slightest indication of its being
operculated. In anything else it is Ph. patens entirely.

I have sent you this set of mosses
because, in the first place I thought it would be gratifying
to you to see what a pretty close examination of the
central part of our state would yield in [?]
plants. And in the second place it would be a
good [?] to ask you for something in the
same line! References to your specimens occur
        