
          Pontrilas House
 Hereford


 Recd. [Received] June 16th
 Ansd. [Answered] " 19th


 May 25 1850


 My dear Sir


 I received three or four weeks 
 since your most valuable parcels 
 containing to my great delight one 
 excellent set of Col. Fr�monts Californian 
 plants - also a set of Dr. Johnsons Yucutan 
 plants and some others all very valuable 
 to me and for all of which I should 
 have written long since to thank 
 you but that I have been too 
 much engaged to examine so many
 as I could have wished. Our friend Asa 
 Gray had asked me to describe some 
 of Wright's Texan Leguminosae and I 
 had a number of things on hand which 
 I was obliged to finish before leaving 
 home for a couple of months.


 I had just been laying in 
 Compositae when your parcel arrived 
 and the following were my 
 determinations of those of the Yucatan
 set:
        