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APPENDIX No. 2. _ : 
CoLiEecr or Puysicians anv SuRGEONS, 
New York, February 10, 1848. 
My Dear Sir: I have examined the interesting collection of 
plants which*you kindly placed at my disposal, and herewith send 
you a list of them, as complete as my numerous engagements per- 
mit me to make at present. The route which you passed over is 
_ exceedingly rich in botanical treasures, as is evident from the num- 
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direction and mounting the Raton. sRovateips about 7,000 feet ae 
| _. halting at Santa Fé, in latitude 35°41’, on a tributary 
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er of new species and genera whfich you were enabled to make 
under great disadvantages, and i in an expedition which was almost. 
wholly military in its character. Most of the new plants which 
ou found are only indicated, or, at most, very briefly described in 
the following list. A more full account of them will be given here- 
after. 
I am, my dear sir, very respectfully, yours : 
begs! 7°" JOHN TORREY. - 
To Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Emory. : 
Juuy 22, 1847, « 
My Dear Sir: I give you the following written sketch of the 
route, not being able, as you request, to get a trace made from my 
eee the 27th June to July 11th, we were traversing the country : 
‘between Fort Leavenworth and the bend of the Arkansas, a ri 
parallels of 
rolling prairie embraced between the 39th and 38th 
latitude, and the 94th and 98th meridians of longitude.» 
From July 11th to July 13th, followed the Arkansas to Pawnee 
fork, in longitude about 99. At this point the fertile soil cent 
except on the immediate margin of ihe streams. 
From the 14th July to August Ist, we were in the valley of the — 
Arkansas, occasionally crossing the spurs of low hills which inter- _ 
rupt the direct course of the aR aes part wot in ni 
38°, and between longitude 99° and 1 Si 
From the 1st August to the 8th, eo ‘the plain in.a 
the sea, between latitudes 38 and 3 
_ From the 8th August to the ath, in the valleys of the tributaries 
to the Canadian, and crossing the ‘extensive plains | between these 
valle an 
F. oo the 14th August to the 18ih, ascending the great ridg ye be 
tween the head of the Canadian and the waters of the Du 
oe aa ae distant from the Del nent ant 
and € ve the sea. 
