726 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1881_ 
But I was very busy when it came, and hardly less so 
since, and so | let it get out of sight. 
Well, here we are once more, leaving dear friends 
on the other side, and now among our own kith and 
kin. 
Glad to hear of your pleasant summer, and pretty 
good health now. 
e had a favorable voyage home, which is more 
than those just before could say, and far more than 
any since. . . 
Nees’s Aakers, of his own herbarium, I can nowhere 
find or hear of. But I don’t believe his herbarium 
(which was sold piecemeal) would have helped me 
much, considering how he has named asters for other 
herbaria. . | 
Aoasieibatad collections, of Lemmon, Parish,! Cu- 
sick, ete., especially have taken all my time up to 
now, atte: getting my home in order, a deal of trouble. 
And now I can think of getting at my “ Flora” work 
again. 
_First of all, I am to make complete as I can my 
manuscript for Solidago and Aster. Solidago I always 
find rather hopeful. Aster, as to the Asteres genuini, 
is my utter despair! Still I can work my way 
through except for the Piessiaz| Mountain Pacific 
species. 
I will try them once more, though I see not how to 
limit species, and to describe specimens is endless 
and hopeless. So send on your things. But first I 
am to print, pari passu with my final elaboration, an 
article, “Studies in Solidago and Aster,” — taking 
the former first, giving an account of what I have 
1 Samuel B. Parish, San Bernardino, Cal. 
? William Cusick, Crowell, Oregon. 
