
          from Hotels to Boarding houses
and back, have been smoked
burned and washed out (without,
happily, loosing much)
and have been in constant
[?] and therefore trouble
with mechanics repairing
and refitting my house  - and
I am not through with it yet.

Tell Mr Thurber that I
have collected the [A?] in
abundance, but not met
with the Eragrostis. My first
business, when my herbarium
is in a little order (It is
boxed up yet) will be to
send him the grasses.

Prof Gray sent me the other day
a note of Dr Darlington about
the [?] of Sagittaria variabilis
born at the end of stolons, and
from the size of a pea to that of
an egg. I have seen them also
        