
          have been induced to stay. He has been obliged
 to do hard labor in the field with inadequate
 outfits &.c. [et cetera] for which however he does not blame Maj [Major]
 Emory. He has got through the worst and has 
 had a very pretty field for botanizing the past summer
 which he has handsomely improved.
 He requests me to tender you his best respects
 and to tell you that he is so busily arranging his
 plants to send home that he has not time to write
 this week but will do so next.


 You say you long ago wrote me an acknowledgement
 of the receipt of my Copper mine plants.
 I have never received it and the first internation 
 I had of your receipt of them was through
 Mr. Schott on my arrival near here.
 The Rutaceae I collected on Flounce Mountain Mx. [Mexico]
 I have seen no where since. Possibly Dr. Parry
 may come across it on his voyage down the 
 river. I looked diligently for the flowers but it
 passed apparently but a short time before.
 Almost all perennials bloom 2 or 3 times in 
 this country so that should Dr. Parry come across
 the plant he [crossed out: will] [above line: may] find it in bloom and he will
 not neglect it. I have a good many specimens
 of it in fruit. When I first found the plant
 without fruit from its Terebinthinate smell
 I took it for Coniferae and when I found by the
 fruit it did not belong to that order it struck
 me as being something peculiar and I gathered

        