
          Glad to learn that you have the describing
 of the plants to the Exploring expedition


 You will have a treat and will
 be able to make it count too in the
 publication of the flora - Have heard
 nothing of Dr. Gray for some time - I shall
 long remember the kindness and urbanity
 of our friend Carey. - Have heard nothing
 of Holton on his Holtonia (when he finds
 it?) since last Winter. - 


 Glad I am
 not at Santa Fee this Summer - Times are
 not sufficiently settled to suit the more quiet
 pursuits of a Naturalist - I have not seen
 a single Carex Barrattii in flower or fruit
 this season though there is an abundance
 of the young plants here - I have noticed
 the scarcity of the flowering of this
 species several seasons before this -


 Please write whenever any time
 and circumstances may make it convenient
 on your part -


 I can frank and receive letters free
 on private business but nothing else so
 I do not frank this because it contains
 these fragments of specimens


 Very cordially yours


 P.D.Knieskern


 Please get me some 25 sp.
 of [Panicum?] agrostoides for sets?
 It does not grow here - 

        