
          Rochester March 27, 1858

My Dear Sir,
Your letter was welcome
on all accounts, very welcome. I
wished to know about that Carex, & it
is as you say, there is a mistake.

Let me confess, & than make an
application.  Dr. Boott happened,
in a letter to Sartwell, to direct
my attention to C. Nuttallii, of
which you sent him an authentic
specimen. In my description, Sill.
Journ. Vol. [43?], p. 92, I called the
fruit "twice longer than the
scale", where it should have been
"shorter than". My thought was on
the secale as longer, though I
made longer agree with the fruit.
It is an easy mistake; but substitute
[brevioribus?] for longiostris, & all is
right. Boott did not point to this
mistake, but to the description as
a whole.

Now, let Dr. Boott

        