
          a smaller house I parted with
my phanerogamous collection. But
retained all the cryptogamia which 
themselves take up considerable
space. And what time I am
able to give is devoted to the ferns
mosses & the algae. But my eyes
are not so strong for minute
investigation as formerly & I
have for a few years past been
making a collection of land &
freshwater mollusca. And this
brings me to say in reply to your 
kind offer that rare [added: phanerogamous] plants from
you would be thrown away upon
me now but that should it
be in your power to help me
through any of your friends to 
any of my [added [?]] desiderata I shd
be very grateful indeed. The
worst of it is however that I
cannot offer myself as a correspondent
to any one not having
store of duplicates which you 
will know implies that general
attention to the subject which I

        