
          N.B. My parcel will be forwarded by Harnden's Express.
I shall leave it at the office this (Saturday) morng.

Recd. Sept. 6th.
And. Oct. 8th 1840
Cambridge Masstts.
4 Sept. 1840

Dear sir
I forward with this a small parcel
of the plants collected by me in New Hampshire the
present season: some of which will I hope prove
acceptable. I succeeded in finding a few that had
only (so far as I know) been previously found by
Mr. Oakes, and belonging to the rariores of our
alpine Flora, - but nothing I fear, in the phaen-
gamous division, which you will consider new. Some
were, however, very interesting to me, - such as
the series of specimens of the grass called by me on
a previous occasion "Aira pilosiuscula", + others. I was 
told by Mr. Macrae of Montreal who recently vis-
ited Boston. That Dr. Gray considered this grass as
Agrostis, but I am unable to cite any other 
name for it than the above, until I hear
further. I noted on the label of my specimens originally

        