
          He says he has done nothing in botany since then
 until this season, says he has a student who collects.


 That the locality of Dracocephalum pauciflorum
 and Carex aristata are exhausted but that he will
 divide with me the stock he has on hand which is
 scanty - The locality of the latter has been
 drained & not one is to be found - He suggests
 the idea of renting the Meadow about 7/8 of an acre
 and stopping up the drain to restore if possible
 its locality. -


 I urged him to give me the
 name of the student & to urge him on to collect
 largely of such interesting plants as are found in
 his neighborhood - Was it right to press this
 matter promptly to secure some of the choice
 plants of that region?


 He mentions having found a Carex about Ogdenburg
 which he could not make out on dry ground
 stem filiform or capellary no staminate spike but
 pistillate which is on the extreme top - and not
 larger than a [crossed out: a] grain of wheat - quite leafy - none
 of the leaves caulescent - I asked him for some
 as a matter of course - Says he has several more
 Carices he does not know and intends to send
 them to Prof. Dewey in a few days -


 Says he found a queer thing recently floating on
 water in a ditch like [Lemna?] - Leaf about 1 inch
        