
          Carex Willdenovii is a variation with the scales uniformly shorter than the
 fruit -- At first I did not know but it was your "Deigher walli" [PNAS part 1, Jan-
 apr 1887 p. 80 Tygart Valley, Western PA] plant
 I suspect that the seeds of Eleocharis prolifera which I gave you belong
 to E. microcarpa -  I purpose yanking up the roots the coming Spring place
 them in a box & as soon as those false stems shoot out clip them off
 Perhaps this method will succeed -- You wish me to send you notes
 on my Solidagos  -- My collection is small and most of them from the
 North -- I make it my practice to send you any thing I find
 sometimes the only specimen I have- I might sometimes help you
 as it regards the Habitat of plants -- With us the Eupatorium rotund. [rotundifolium?]
 uniformly grows in wet pine [previous 2 words underlined] barrens -- Rhynchospora Elliottii always on
 arid sandhills &c. [etc.] The Uvaria pygmaea has deciduous leaves  Stipulicida 
 setacea is perennial - But I cannot anticipate these small matters


 I can now visit Aspalaga [Gadsden County, FL] in safety & if the troops remain
 stationed where they are now in the Spring I hope to get the Torreya 
 in quantities as well as Croon's Taxus - You will recollect that
 two or three years ago I mentioned having seen a Coniferous tree 
 in the lower parts of this County - it may be Cupressus thyoides but
 it does not look like a specimen from Mr. Lapham (See package)


 Last summer I went down into the Lower part of this County to get some
 of the Rhododendron punct.  The whole country is a perfect wilderness where 
 deep swamps and dry sand ridges alternate.  I rode to one of the larger creeks 
 & then took it on foot through a swamp nearly a mile wide.  In this swamp
 I found  a moccasin track ! but as it did not appear recent I ventured on
 some five miles farther & to my great mortification I could not find the 
 spot where I had seen it before! The next day some hunters on the
 frontier fell upon thirteen Indians three of whom they killed -- It seems they
 had found my trail & were following it up towards the frontier! & I need
 not say to you that it was my last visit to that region.
  
        