
          then have had more reason to regret the absence of
yours. I think with pleasure on the time I spent,
bachelor like, with you, & mind [?] not [?] you
of my gratification in [owing you?] any honour
himself. I hope you will just look in upon
me this summer. Suppose you come home, any
time, between this & Sept. 7th, & you will most
certainly find me, if the Lord smiles upon me.

On my return, I found your letter in answer
to my reasons for publishing on the Carices.
I am glad you are satisfied with them, I do
think them entirely unanswerable. And I repeat,
that often what Schw. has done by his Analyt.
Table, I do not & can not injure him. And, besides
if he had published his own work, which you are
now new [modelling?], he would have destroyed his
reputation entirely. It is most fortunate that he
could not do it, & I am heartily glad he did not
put his Monograph into my hands, as he said
he would have done if he had known what I was
about. I can not injure Schw. if I was to publish descriptions
of all his new species. It so happens
indeed, that most of those he found, turn
out to be erronious, as you judge - so that, only
a few remain. Now, so far as you are concerned
in his work, you can not but allow, my friend,
for the reasons you urge against me, that I have
a claim upon you to stop till I have done - for
I have preoccupied the ground. But I ask no such
thing - I wish you to go on with it soon as you
can - I have wished the Monograph to come forth _
I wish it still, tho' I might turn your argument
against you. But after all I saw, & often all you
said to me on his Carices & Mon., you will allow

[right margin]
If you take the oldest name, you will use C. latifolia Geartner for C. plantagenea _
C. leucoglochin for C. parviflora _ C. [crossed out?] [added: [leptalea]] for C.
polytrichoides - etc. C. [?] for [page torn, part illegible: ? multiflora], etc. etc.
If you prefer, I shall call C. conoidea [page torn: illegible]. after your honour as the species
is distinct - I suppose a fig. is drawn for me, as I sent the plant to  Mr. [H?].
Did you say that C. Nuttallii is your C. subulata, Mx.? How could Schw. mistake?
        