
          Recd. [Received] [Crossed out: Sept. 2] Aug. [August] 30


 Ansd. [Answered] Sept. [September] 5th


 Camp Bache near Rock
 Creek July 8. 1852.


 Dear Sir.


 A Mexican requiring amputation
 of the arm and the necessity of leaving
 a party at this place to await the arrival
 of [Lieghtners?] train from San Antonio is the
 reason of my dating from this place.
 This is the point on the San Antonio road when
 our way to Presidio Del Norte diverges. Maj [Major]
 Emory and Dr. Parry have gone on since
 the 4th and I presume by this time are
 at Presidio Del Norte.


 It is difficult to find any thing in these 
 diggings that have escaped the Eagle
 eyes of Mr. Wright. Yet I enclose a
 composit [composite] growing very abundantly very
 near to Baileya and also a variety if not
 a new species of the same genus to which I
 am unable to refer to any description in your
 Flora or Wright & Fendlers publications.
 I also enclose an evergreen shrub [crossed out: shrub] near
 to Rutaceae which does not appear to be in
 any publication we have. I collected at 
 Flounce mountain the only locality I have seen 
 it on the Mexican side of the river about 30 or 
 40 miles below San Elceario. In a low
 bare place I also picked up a few specimens
 for a kindred order which we are unable to
 to infer from its appearance and growth. I
 inferred it to be some very common herb
 expecting to meet it again in which however
 we have thus far failed. I have collected
 2 specimens of a Dalea one of which I send
 which appears to be intermediate between D.
        