
          ask further information, with regard to No. 34. in 
 my last package to you. It is a Carex, 
 from the shore of lake Erie, growing with C. 
 lupulina but flowering later. You named it
 "Carex aff. lupulina, but [SS?] of hystericina? n. sp.? Collins"
 Is it not a var. [variant] of C. [Carex] lupulina? from which it appears 
 to differ principally in its pedunculate spikes? 
 It flowers a month later than C. [Carex] lupulina (Aug. 6th).


 Will you excuse me for troubling you on another 
 subject? I shall not be able 
 to remain much longer in this place, unless 
 I engage in the practice of medicine, under 
 circumstances which will altogether preclude 
 me from paying any further attention to 
 Natural History. My friends advise me to spend 
 a few years in a milder climate, our family, being 
 predisposed to phthisis, although I am perfectly 
 healthy & robust, and such a course would be very 
 agreeable to me, as I could combine the study of Nat. [Natural]
 History with [added: the] professional buisness [business] which will be
 necessary for my support. I have thought of the 
 Southern States, but I have for some time been 
 inclined to prefer Mexico, both on account of the 
 salubrity of its climate. and, of its botanical and 
 mineralogical riches, which so far as I know, have 
 never been very thoroughly explored. My object in 
 troubling you with all this, is merely to obtain some 
 information with regard to the Nat. [Natural] Hist. [History] of that country
        