
          been connected with a surveying party
 whose duty it is to examine the geology
 topography and botany of the State of Louisiana,
 and report annually to the State Legislature. It
 has thus become my special business to collect 
 all the plants which grow in Louisianna, and
 up to the present time I have collected[,] dried[,]
 determined[,] classified and arranged in herbarium
 form about 700-800 specimens, including
 flowering plants, grasses, ferns[,] sedges[,] rushes[,]
 algae[,] mosses[,] lichens & fungi. A wide field
 of investigation, indeed, and which will require
 years for its accomplishment. I have determined
 40 or 50 specimens of the most ordinary
 grasses, but I have still 41 specimens of the
 more rare grasses, and 50 by Cyperaceae &
 Juncaceae which are not yet determined.
 I have just completed a neat little herbarium
 of 106 undetermined specimens, stating the
 localily of their growth and a few other characteristics;
 including 15 flowering plants
        