THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 217 
late, as within a fortnight I shall have for a week or two to make 
an absolute pause in my botanical pursuits on account of business— 
I have very carefully revised the Carices this season—but have no 
other correction to make of consequence, except requesting you 
by all means to strike out the whole of the description of my sup- 
posed new Species Carex typhinoides—for I have found it in great 
plenty this year growing in such a manner as to leave no doubt 
that it is only a variety of C. squarrosa. All the rest of my species 
I have found confirmed, & met with a number of new ones, be- 
sides finding a number here & in the mountains, which I had be- 
fore only met with in North Carolina. I am obliged to you 
for your answer concerning the Neoftia, & shall attend to collecting 
for you Digit{aria] serotina. I have now observed the V[iola] 
clandestina in plenty in the Beech woods (by the bye I only past 
thro’ a small corner of them, & conceive they must be very fertile 
in interesting plants more especially Musci &c.) & am quite cer- 
tain it is only a variety of blanda. 
You must have mistaken my remark concerning your 2d Vol of 
the Flora [86]—that is not at all damaged—but I am extremely 
desirous of seeing the 3d number. If you could immediatley on 
receiving this hand it to my friend Rev. Benj. Mortimer, Fulton 
Street (& doubly should I rejoice if you could add the small package 
of Cryptog. of which you speak—trebly if there were some Ameri- 
can phaenogamous additions from the North, South, East, or West) 
I should probably receive it soon as he is comming here in the course 
of the week ending the 25th. When he returns I hope to forward to 
you a considerable packet cont’g near 1000 Phaenog. & Cryp. for 
Prof. Hooker—for alas I believe I have nothing more to send to 
yourself. Be assured that I shall always desire you to read 
any communication Prof. Hooker may make to me— so there is 
no need of excusing your opening his letter. 
I wish I could say as you do—that since my last I hiye re- 
ceived a good number of new Plants—I did expect many—but I 
have got a very few only—& begin to think my Den the very con- 
trary of the Lion’s, for there are a great many more footsteps going 
out than in. This, however, I beg you not to apply to yourself— 
for there is a good path trod by your “In trades.” The matter 
is that it is not altogether easy to get more after one has got a 
certain quantity. 
