
          But I can scarcely give him any encouragement
 in as much as I may not have the means - Though
 such a jaunt would be highly interesting, and
 might result in making some important discoveries?


 I have not yet made my sea shore excursion
 but am waiting for a favorable opportunity -


 Mr. Rowell had made arrangements for me
 to go to Princeton in part to transact business for him
 and I had laid in a store of bringable plants
 for you in a living state but the trip fell through


 I may possibly go up still - I wish very much to
 see you for a little while on several accounts.


 I made the Diagram when exhausted from
 want of fatigue & sleep & executed it badly and
 I will make it again


 Scirpus Torreyana (or anything you please. [drawing of a laminar triangular structure with concave sides lying on its base; at the left concavity "Transverse or Horizontal section"; at the right concavity "Three sides grooved"; below the base "or channelled"]
 Scirpus triqueter - [drawing of a solid triangular structure with concave sides lying on its base; to its left "Horizontal section"; to its right "two sides grooved'; below the base "one side plane"]


 The plant is too large to send in a letter
 but I will send a specimen of the new species (a dwaft
 specimen & in the little white paper the fruit - I find
 that some of the spikes contain no fruit


 Believe me very sincerely yours


 P.D.Kneiskern
        