
          Austin Texas Aug. 7/83 [1883]


 Mr. N.L. Britton


 Dear Sir


 Mr Braman
 informs me that he has rec'd [received]
 the package of plants and
 now that you have rec'd [received]
 the descriptions of those which
 I suppose to be new with the 
 aid of your herbarium and
 library you can soon decide
 the matter. If any or all
 of them be new, please publish
 the descriptions as soon as
 convenient in the Bulletin.
 The oaks seem to me to be
 different from any described by
 Torrey in the Mexican Boundary
 or by Engelmann in the Wheeler
 Survey & the trees of the Pacific
 Slope are all said to differ
 from those East of the Rockies

        