MR. DRUMMOND’S COLLECTIONS. 183 
NOTICE CONCERNING MR. DRUMMOND’S COLLEC- 
TIONS, MADE CHIEFLY IN THE SOUTHERN AND 
WESTERN PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
(Continued from p. 60 of this, Volume.) 
In a former communication respecting Mr. Drummond, we 
left him at New Orleans with the intention of proceeding, by 
the Red River, to Natchatoches on his way to Texas: but 
circumstances induced him to alter his route, as mentioned 
in his letter, dated ** Covington* Sept. 2d, 1832." Thence he 
sent an ample. collection of plants, among which are many 
interesting ones, besides a considerable Bamber of mosses, 
and above 100 kinds of seeds, together with roots for cul- 
tivation. Among the seeds, are those of a most beautiful 
Nuttallia, (N. Papaver, Bot. Mag. t. 3287,) and among 
the latter, plenty of the little known Sarracenia psittacina, 
Mich. 
Notwithstanding the general unhealthiness of the climate, 
and the unusually sickly season, (cholera having been very 
fatal,) this enthusiastic naturalist enjoyed an excellent state 
of health, exposed though he was to the mid-day sun (while 
the thermometer ranged from 96—100° in the shade,) and 
* There is a “Covington” in Alabama, which I erroneously conceived 
to be the town expressed in the letter: so that some of the collections 
were distributed as from **Alabama;" but I afterwards ascertained that 
the Covington here alluded to is in Louisiana. I was further misled by 
finding that several plants formerly transmitted to me from Alabama, 
through other channels, were identical with those found around Covington 
by Mr. Drummond, 
