
          I acknowledged the receipt of the valuable
parcel containing the Junci + Luzulae which you so
kindly sent me, I am sure. But I recieved
it just at the time that I was summoned 
to Boston to see my honoured father for the last
time: and I know you will excuse me if (for I cannot
remember with perfect certainty) I failed in the 
proper acknowledgement of so great a kindness.
Mr. Oakes is hard at work on his White Mtn. Flora.
He has been there the whole summer making des-
criptions + specimens. He has added [added: to our Fl.] Festuca vivip-
ara + Luzula arcuata [added: Paronychia argyrocoma!] this year: found plenty of Carex
atrata + Gnaphalium supinum + done a vast deal
of the hardest work.
In September (I could not go earlier) I went to
the mountains + remained till about a week since, coll-
ecting discoveries. At Franconia Notch, belonging to 
the White Mtn. range in a pond I got Subularia
aquatica. Isoetes lacustris in all the ponds within 20
miles. Rhinanthus crinita galli (in situ naturali!) in the 
        