
          Oriskany April 14th 1838

Dear Sir

I have written several letters since last
August but have received no answers. You informed me
in your last that you had put up a package for me
which I have not been able to call for myself nor have I
had an opportunity to send until now. Will you have
the goodness to send by the bearer & send me word what
I shall do with the specimens I collected for you last
season & the sections of wood I have on hand.

I have two things that are new to me, one a grass
found on an island in Oneida Lake, another a Carex
obtained in a swamp on the Pine Plains 3 miles from
New London in the town of Rome. Neither of
them may be new. If I had a specimen before me I
would attach a description but they are in Utica with
the rest of my collections. The Carex grows where the water
is about 2 feet deep. It is 3 or 4 feet high, a staminate
spike at top & one or two pistilate spikes below, resembling
in general appearance those of the Carex bullata but the
pistilate spikes are smaller and shorter.

In haste truly yours,

P. D. Knieskern 
        