
          Recd [Received] Aug. 30.

Ansd [Answered] Sept. 5.

July 12, 1852 Camp Bache.

Since I wrote my last PS
I received a note from Dr. Parry at Presidio
Del Norte. He says Cereus greggii with [sipe? [stipe?]]
[crossed out: illegible] is abundant down there. I have collected [added: it] also
here at the mountains of the Muerte. I also
collected at that place a Clematis sp. nov. [species nova] which
I presume is the same he has collected there &
appears abundant here & there. I enclose
a fragment in this letter and should have done
it in the package of plants but it was too green
and damp to put with them when I made
it up. Dr. Parry also informs me that the
prospects of much success in botanizing in 
that region is rather dry literally as well as
figuratively. "The River is the same old [dispence?]
desert [table land?] and bare mts. [mountains]." He also informs
me that he has found a new Echinocactus
on his route but he does not say whether he
collected fruit or flower or either.  
        