
          a single leaf and panicle of Cyclachaena, & as the seeds are quite ripe
 I wish you would take some of them to a retired pond-side (or
 brackish marsh?) & see if you cannot establish it. I should
 select a sort of wet thicket, just where we find ambrosia [trip?]
 in flourishing circumstances. There is also a single head of ripe
 seeds of the new (?) [crossed out: Scorzonella] Calais, & perhaps also of the Scorzonella
 if you have "public spirit" enough to try & raise them in a nook
 of your garden. The Cyclachaena is no doubt a rude grower,
 & a pond, or river thicket would suit it best. And here I
 think I will conclude my Kooskoosky [i.e. Kooskooskie] "report," of course with
 the accustomed-- All which is repectfully submitted &c. &c.


 Two days after I had the pleasure of seeing you Mr. [Isaac Farwell] Holton
 brought me the sealed package of Carices [Carex], not yet opened.
 I purpose, next week, D.V. to commence overhauling your Collec'n [collection].
 I take due note of your instructions (by which I shall carefully
 guide myself) that-- "at present we will not have the pleasure
 of cribbing" from the Exp'n [Expedition] Carices of U. [Uncle] Sam. However,
 I remark, with consolatory hope, the emphatical 
 "but be patient!" which follows the prohibitory clause--
 and this (contingent) "I promise to pay" shall serve me, in
 these times of perplexity, in lieu of the "Specie clause" or [hard?]
 money system-- "Can you be honest [Mungo?]?-- What you
 give me massa"? In the present instance, I will try to be
 honest, & take my pay in-- the possibility of future possibilities.
 As to the other "odds & ends" of Carices, of which you speak, I
 shall take a (conscientious!) toll, where I care to do so, & 
 your abundance will permit, laying together all your [?]
 duplicates, as you desire. My Congress friend, has sent
 me a copy of [Joseph Nicolas] Nicollet's report, much to my contentment.
 Please lay aside for me an Autog'r Lr. [Autograph Letter] of Nicollet, if you have
 several, also one of any of the other parties [added with caret: (in our line)] which you may possess,
 whose reports are severally in preparation. Kind regards to Mrs. T. [Eliza Torrey]
 and the young ladies, & believe me Affec'y Yrs. [Affectionately Yours] Jno [John] Carey 

        