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liness of heart. He was a man of strong sympathy, not simply for 
one in trouble, but for one on whom fortune had smiled. In doing a 
favor for an acquaintance he always seemed to find sincere pleasure, 
though he rarely said so. Mr. Orcutt writes, “Mr. Pringle carried 
consideration for others almost to an extreme (were this truly possible) ; 
and I have seen him select the heavier burden and give his peon 
servant the lighter one to carry." Scores of similar instances might 
be cited. During the last ten years of his life he spent thousands of 
dollars out of his small estate to help, now a relative, now a friend, 
now a former assistant in what seemed to be a serious emergency. 
In this he was sometimes accused of acting with too little regard for 
self-interest. But if he failed in worldly prudence, he lived more 
closely than most men to the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount. 
These failings, if they were failings, leaned to virtue’s side. If his 
acts of generosity at times betrayed faults of judgment, they were 
faults for which his friends loved him none the less dearly. 
REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF THE BOSTON 
DISTRICT,— XII. 
UwnusuaLLY full and detailed information in regard to the genus 
Carex is in the hands of the Committee. Collections seem to have 
been very numerous within our areas, and there are fewer gaps in 
distribution than in any previous report. The list is based on the 
Gray Herbarium, the herbaria of the New England Botanical Club, 
Boston Society of Natural History, Peabody Academy of Science 
at Salem, and Wellesley College; also Dr. C. W. Swan’s collection 
(now at Yale University), and the personal herbaria of C. F. Batchel- 
der, Judge J. R. Churchill, Walter Deane, F. F. Forbes, Dr. G. G. 
Kennedy, C. H. Knowlton, and R. A. Ware. The files of RHODORA 
and the local floras covering the area have been carefully consulted 
for additional records. Doubtful reports have been verified, or quoted 
with their authority where verification has been impossible. 
