
          Oakes I know nothing of Nuttall he's flown
awaay from birds as well as botany & is now
driving away an antidiluvian bones fossil shells
Conchology, Geology, etc. etc. in Charleston & about it
I picked up a good number of their spring plants
but not much that is new, perhaps nothing, some 
Carices & grasses which remain to be discovered
[crossed out: ?] & one or two very queer Scirpi. The only
plant of any inerest that I have seen since my
return is a Caren which I found in Cambridge a 
day or two since. Male spikes from 1 to 3 [?]
male spikes (so far as I have examined it) with male
flowers on the summit, cylindrical. The fruit
nearby spherical & whitish before it is quite [?] &
very hairy. I was very glad that you had again
taken hold of Botany & did hope to have returned by 
the way of N.Y. that I might have looked in
& seen what you were about but I was disappointed

        