
          Wrightii & Jamesii leaving out the minute
 & probably more characteristic destructions
 not having Nuttalls gen. [The Genera of North American Plants] I have no description of
 D. [Dalea] Aurea which this may be as it appears to
 differ from the [Shirt?] description of nana [Dalea nana]
 yet I see Mr. Wright collected near this place
 (Pass of the Limpia) a tall one much resembling
 the Aurea. I hardly expect it is anything
 new!! In a deep mountain pass
 I found but a single specimen of Streptanthus
 which if not new must unite Fendlers
 S. [Streptanthus] micranthus with S. longifolius (Benth. [Bentham])
 I shall go into the mountains again in day
 or [crossed out: tw] two expressly to get more of it. If I
 can put it up easily I believe I will send my
 only specimen and trust to fortune for more.
 I find a [Phenopod?] with ripe fruit which
 you will have long since received in a younger
 state in our collections heretofore sent.
 I send also an Aristolochiaceae without
 any anticipation of its being [crossed out: any] new however.


 I see by the Pl. [Plantae] Wrightianae that Dr.
 Gray has made sad havoc of the very little
 contributions to Botany I have made in this
 country. My means for collecting and
 preserving plants heretofore have been very
 limited and my [added: time] occupied by professional
 duties so much that I have been unable
 to put [added: up] what I did collect with the neatness
 of a professed botanist. Yet humble as they
 are the little that is due should be given with
 a small degree of care & precision. For instance
 the ripe fruit of Koeberlina [Koeberlinia] spinosa
 which determines the order to which it should

        