
          [note in pencil: 1847?]


 My dear friend--


 The Carices [Carex] arrived 
 safely, for which & my share of
 your last letter, I am much obliged.
 Truly, when you say that "C. Crawei [Carex crawei]
 & C. heterostach. [Carex heterostachya] look differently"
 you puzzle my optics, for sooth
 to say, I could not pick them out
 if they were mingled. However, I
 will again have the fruit under
 the microscope when I review my
 work, in a day or two, tho' I shrewdly
 suspect that you looked on them 
 without your specs, or towards bedtime,
 but if not I must assuredly
 borrow the same or procure the like
 glasses. As to names, I suppose I
 must preserve the ([euphonous? euphonious?]!) C. Crawei
        