
          Ansd  Dec 16th
 Camp [Leavys?] San Pedro river
 Vally [Valley] 230 miles from San Antonio Texas
 Nov. 7th 1850


 Dear Sir, Enclosed I send you a specimen
 of Juglans found by me in the Vally [Valley] of the Rio
 San Pedro or more generally known in Texas as
 Devils River. I first [added: saw] it at the 2nd crossing
 of the San Pedro on the 3rd Inst. [Instant]. The vally [valley] of 
 the San Pedro is very narrow and in high water
 flooding fills the vally [Valley] from the mountain on 
 one side of the river to that on the other side.


 The plant in the bed of the river and near the
 banks grows shrubby in large stools of 5 to 20 or
 30 stems 5 to 10 feet high. In places more elevated
 and not so subject to inundation it grows in isolated
 trees 10 to 20 feet high. I have every reason to 
 believe it to be a new species. You will of
 course know. Should it turn out so I must
 claim the privilege of requesting you to write a 
 diagnostic description of it as far as you can without 
 the flowers for publication In Silliman's American
 Journal at your earliest convenience. I have
 had a hasty sketch made of it which I will send to

        