
          with Taxus nor with Podocarpus. Besides, the tree, I think, 
is dioecious, but of this I am not yet certain. What will
you do with it? Will it make a new genus? The smaller
[added: of the two] fruits which I gave you last summer I am satisfied
is a Podocarpus. The ovate nut was half-enclosed in 
a dry or firm receptacle. I will avail myself of
the earliest opportunity to send you some of this interesting
fruit. I [crossed out: am] have also requested my cotton agent
at Magnolia! to send one, boxed up , and regularly 
consigned to Mr. Donaldson the [crossed out: illegible] section of the Palmetto tree
which you desired. That was a fine and vigorous specimen
of Sabal which I send you from New Bern, but which I 
suppose the Captain's cabin boy has converted into a
broom, which purpose it serves very well.

I have obtained form the sea-coast a Lycium which I 
suppose to be new. The stem and branches are armed, 
and the peduncles longer than the leaves. What say you?
I have also from the coast Buphthalmum frutescens, [?]
[pedunculatium?] and Aster [flexunus?], Nutt.

There is a Cleome here perhaps new. Seems simple, 
not cuneate. Dr. [Alvan Wentworth] Chapman & myself have specimens. 
I have paid Dr. C. a visit and find him
zealously pursuing the subject of Botany. You have, at
length obtained in him what you have so long wanted
at the South, a person who will take the trouble to
collect and preserve plants. I have a letter from Dr. 
Loomis at Macon. He says that he and a Mr. Green, 
whom I have solicited, will collect plants for you.
I found, the other day, the Catalpa cordifolia decidedly indigenous
on the banks of Little River a branch of the Oclockony [Ochlockonee]
        