
          sent with the above name, the extraordinary character of 
1-flowered  spikelets, - but it did not for some reason or other
occur to me to call it an Agrostis. There are other
plants in the parcel which I should be very glad
to know more of - + it is possible some of them
may turn out to be something, - but this you
will easily decide.
I do not know where I shall be able to sit down to
the study of various of these which I have sent un-
named, and I have therefore not hesitated to send
them as they area.
intended to have visited the station of Mr.
Nuttall's Maine Emptrum - (in regard to which I
ventured in my last letter to propose the question
or guess - if it were not "E. rubrum", referred to
by your: but I had not compared the specimens with
your diagnosis of E. conradii, and felt it was ha-
zarding something;) but was hindered.
A new number of the Boston Journal of Natural
History is in the press here, and also a Report by
Prof. Dewey to the Gov on the Botanical Survey of
the Commonwth from the former a small article by one
        