
          Oriskany June 2nd 1841.

Dear Sir!

I received your letter dated May 28th Ult.
yesterday, and your last before this dated April [19th?]
I have been engaged in preparing labels, collecting
plants and arranging them to send off (As much
as my professional and domestic duties would admit.)
since the opening of the Spring season, I have a
pretty large assortment of Carices which I am now
laboring to fill up as extensively as practicable.
And it will be necessary for me still to make 
several excursions for this purpose.---The season 
for collecting has been very unfavorable until
within a fortnight, and now vegetation progresses
so rapidly that plants pass the season for collecting
in a very short time.     The plants peculiar
to our Swamp are in great danger of being soon
eradicated entirely nearly half of the best portion
of this locality is cut down & will in a few
years at least, be under the plough or the scythe
The only locality of Carex livida , C. chordorrhiza
and C. limosa var irrrigua [added: also C. tennuiflora] & of Pyrola uliginosa
that I know of anywhere.---I wish to collect 
these and a few others largely this season but
they are yet a little too young.---
I think that by the 15th Inst. I shall be able
to start for Long Lsland to spend a week or so
& perhaps another week in the pine barrens of N. Jersey.
& I am also anxious to accompany you to Ne[w?]
Southeren counties you have named in your 
last.---My friend Vasey and I are making out
a Carex Calender for the present season which shall
be at your service if you wish.---I have met with
some difficulty in getting labels printed I visited
most of the printing offices in Utica but could not
afford to pay their prices viz. $9 for 200 sheets all alike
        