200 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
Your letter of the 27th ult. I received a few days since. It 
grieves me to learn that your health is not good, but I hope it will 
soon be restored that you may attend both to your duties & to 
your favorite scientific pursuits. The Carices I sent you some time 
since, were received safely in Mr. Halsey’s box, & so also were the 
specimens kindly intended for me & the invaluable History of N. 
A. Carices etc. [71]. The package for Prof. Hooker unfortunately 
came 2 days too late, a vessel having just sailed for Glasgow: 
I however mentioned in my letter to the Prof. that something 
from you was hourly expected for him, & that if it arrived too 
late it should be sent by the next opportunity. Another vessel 
will probably be ready in two or three weeks; if not, I can send it 
by the way of England. Mer.. Halsey has it in safe-keeping. 
I have just looked at a proof of the continuation of your 
Carices [67]. It does not altogether please me, though I have ina 
few instances used the authority you gave me to make alterations 
which appeared necessary. I wish exceedingly that one or two 
names were changed, v. in particular muskingumensis & granu- 
larioides. Is not the latter contrary to the Linnaean rules? 
Halsey & myself had a great mind to take liberties here, & I 
don’t say we will not yet if the sheet is not printed off. In the 
4" No. of our Annals we propose to give some of the new or rare 
species from your Monography, for to give the whole would be in- 
consistent with the plan of our work. Mr. H. will make drawings 
of the new ones, unless you could have them done under your 
own inspection. If you could do so, & will mention the species 
to be first described (i.e., the rare & new ones) they shall go to 
press as soon as the 3rd No. is printed. 
My Flora [89] is printing slowly, but pretty regularly. The 
2nd No. is published, & 100 pages of the 3rd. I am now in Octan- 
dria, Trigynia, but the printer has copy to the 3rd or 4th genus in 
Decandria. It appears to me that the whole work will be finished 
(if my life & health are spared) by September or October next. 
This time will be necessary to make the necessary typographical 
corrections, the nature of the work precluding the possibility of 
rapid & at the same time correct, printing. There will be probably 
1000 or I100 pages in all. The cryptogamia, exclusive of the 
ferns must be taken up in a separate volume: but by the time 
