
          I inclose a spike of a new Carex, which
I wish to know whether it be your C.
longirostris, which you [credit?] to Mass. I
got it in abundance this spring, & had
seen it before. Schw. [characters?] show it is
C. longirostris, yet the name is so
appropriate that I wish you would be so
good as to state the fact to me soon as
may be. My new one has capsules considerably
inflated at the base, & [nearly?] globular;
the spikes are pendulous, & as they hang,
[recurved?], all which Schw. says is not
true of that one. Still it has a long
[beak?] - & is wholly dift. from all
others I have seen. At a little distance
it looks more like a loose flowered Elymus
or Secale.

I have not yet rcd. the 2nd No. of
your Botany.

My brother is still miserable - &
perhaps I am to be no better, I have
been to Saratoga, & am [some?] better
now - & mean to journey soon as I can
again.

I wish I could give you some 
        