
          [?] Dec. 12th

Lake Lafayette, near Tallahassee
November 18th 1835

Dear Sir,

About the time of my arrival here I had the pleasure
of recieving your letter of the October, informing
me of the disappointment you had suffered in not getting
the Box which I forwarded by the [Trent?]. It is certainly to be
regretted that most persons pay so little regard to matters
of this sort. Had it been a bale of cotton you would have
experienced no difficulty in obtaining it! In future I 
mean to pay freight and take a Bill of lading! I 
pursued this plan with the second Box which I forwarded 
to you by the Sch- Capt. Cocklin? containing dried
plants, which I hope has been more fortunate than its
predecesor.

On my way out I observed some of the Southern plants farther
North than I had before seen them. Petalostemon corymb. and Robinia 
hispida in the Sandhills as far north as Neuse River. Calamintha
grandiflora in Robeson County N. C. Lupinus diffusus of 
Nuttall makes its appearance in the Sandhills near Fayetteville N.C. 
in great abundance and continuing to Georgia. In Florida L. 
villosus is abundant (on dry sandridges.) At Brier Creek 
Ga. I obtained specimens again of Nuttall's Chrysoma solidaginoides
growing on dry sandhills, along with Ceratiola eric.
Since my arrival here I have obtained [crossed out: illegible] additional
specimens of the plant I gave you last year, and which
Dr. Pickering calls a Ximenesia. Melananthera hastata 
is abundant here and indigenous. (See Nutt. Gen. [Genera])

The letter which I wrote last summer has had the effect to procure
me some perfect fruit of that remarkable Taxoid tree at at
Aspalaga. the result surprises me. It is an ovate one -
celled nut entirely enclosed in fleshy covering! as large 
as a pigeons egg! Calix imbricated; thus agreeing neither
        