
          I begin to fear that I must take better
 care of my health. I am not use to being
 solicitous about it. I fear this last trouble
 came from wearing wet boots from a salt marsh
 till bed time from 5 till 10. I dont like to
 think that such a thing would hurt me. I botanise
 but little & dont find much. My only
 possible inervals are from Friday 9 P.M to Monday
 8 P.M. Tuesday & Thursday at 10 A.M to next
 day at 3. Last Thursday I went to a friend's
 at Ravenswood. I found on the salt marsh only
 wet feet & myriads of phlebotomists. Next day
 I rought back [inserted: A.] Sipho from their garden
 v a [via?] mole? Lamia horrida came from Thorburns. The rain kept me from the woods.
 The [?] has perman^[inserted:en]t anthers? & celled
 bony & persistent on the under? side of
 each scale. I did not even get a chance
 to go to Astoria & see a lady whom I am always
 glad to see & her garden where I may get
 Gillenia 3fol. 


 My papers dry very
 slowly, & worse, imperfectly in Mat [?]
 laboratory & resort occasionally, as this morning
 to a fire in my room for this purpose.


 So slowly do I get over my plants in
 looking over my herbarium & laying out
 duplicates that I am not yet through
        