Your specimen—with fruit—and M. A. Curtis’s[96] from the mountains of Carolina, being in the same state, compare pretty well. I should unite them, only the seeds are different, Stone Mountain plant half the size, and shape rather different. But please rattle me out some real ripe seeds of your plant, for further comparison.
At Stone Mountain I looked rather for small specimens to match with A. brevifolia. I send you a bit.
I have sent the Sedum and Diamorpha yesterday to Paris, to compare and see if both are in Herbarium Michaux.
I am proud of my little discovery!
Ever yours,
Asa Gray.
TO R. W. CHURCH.
Cambridge, June 22, 1875.
I must indulge, on its rising, the impulse to communicate with you, which a letter from Miss P. to my wife, just received, has awakened.
If I go on as I have been going, we shall come to know nothing of each other....
She will have told you of our loss in the death of Mrs. Loring. I never knew a woman fuller of charity, humility, and good works.