
          mit of the "Green Mts. Vt" (of Pursh!) growing abundantly in the region of
high trees. My friend has since gathered this elsewhere but I have not
yet received his specimens. On this same chin, in the subalpine region
+ very much lower than it occurs on the White Mts. we also found the Bartisia
pallida. But I must hurry on merely asking leave to mention that as
these above were mutual discoveries of Mr. Macrae + myself + he or I may possibly
make some little article for the press out of our summers labours, I should
particularly desire that these may for the present - remain in confidence.
At Plymouth I had the advantage of being in the company of Mr. Oakes our
great New England botanist. But without him I added two Rhyncosporas 
to our Mass. Catal.: - R. cymosa, + R. macrostachya - the last indeed
is only a new station. + also a new Scirpus - S. olivacea. So that with RR.
alba, fusca, + glomerata, Plymouth has already more Rhyncosporae than
even West Chester, Pa. as appears from Darlington. Scirpus tuberculosus was also
exceedingly common + abundant, S. subterminalis equally so in the ponds,
+ S. subsquarrosus not rare on their gravelly shores. I will send you sp. from this
station of all these as it is not enum. [enumerated] in your Mon. Cyp. We found also Soli-
dago tenuifol. with other New Jersey pl. 6 Utriculariae were in full fl. in
the ponds: and here I mention that U. cornuta has setaceous root leaves,
which are erectish + not bladder-bearing! This is the case when the pl. grows under 
water - i.e., mostly immersed + also when it grows in the very wet mud on the
margins of the ponds. This fact, first obs. by me, was new to Mr. Oakes + I
cannot find it recorded. These leaves resemble considerably [crossed out: those] organs of the
same appearance which are found on the U. "resupinata Green MSS" of Hitch-
cock's Catal. a very beautiful new sp. also inhabiting these ponds. 
But I have hardly left room to express what I felt at the receipt of your
unexpected + very flattering invitation in regard to that part of your new Flora
which will include the lichens. Be assured dear sir it will give me new
zeal in my prosecution of the study of these plants - + if when the time shall

        