
          the [?] is longer & broader 
than the perigynium. So it is 
on those. Now, I want to know 
if [added: it] is so on all or most you 
have, so that this specimen is defective. 
I am sorry to trouble 
you, but, in this case, the part 
is important to me. If Boott 
made a mistake, it is a slip 
of the pen, & easily done. I made 
such a one on C. [Carex] nuttallii 
in Silliman's journal. By the 
way, I wish to send you C. 
nuttallii, [fine?], if you need 
duplicates or would like them, 
as I have 50 perhaps.

I asked your age, for I cd. n. [could not] 
fix upon it, & yet know it 
is much below mine. It is no wonder 
that you seem at times to 
have lived long. It is when your 
thoughts roam over the past 
multitude of ideas you 
        