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And. Apr. 15.

Union College Schenedy NY.
3 April 1843

Dear sir
Excuse this short and hurried letter
which is only to ask your kind consideration of the 
little pamphlet which accompanies it. Without your long
continued kindness, I could never have written it: my
only hope is that it will not prove to be wholly
unworthy of that kindness. I was lead to publish
this track by the following reason. While in Europe
I had frequent opportunities to procure plants by
the kindness of the botanists to whom I presented par-
cels of our own species. They almost invariably asked 
me what plants I preferred in reuturn. My answer was
almost always Carices, Cyperaceae, Grasses and Junci [refers to Juncaceae].
I thus acquired a large and valuable collection of Cari-
ces - to which Sr. Wm. Hooker with his great
liberality added such boreal American species as he still
had specimens of - a large and of course very precious
set of specimens - and the excellent Dr. Vahl added an

        