
          Fendler has collected beautifully; I hope that he can be made
to go again, if well supported. I was much pleased to find
a number of your plants of [James?] in his collection, e.g.
five specimens of Pleurhaphis, Eriogonum umbellatum,
[?] laciniatum, [?] villosa, Pinus flexilis etc.

My leisure time is so sparingly measured out to
me now, that almost all my botanical labors are confined
to the distribution and partial examination of the
Texas and Sante Fe plants, which get into my
hands. But I must also finish my examination
of the Cuscutae, and continue to study Cactaceae.
If after all that any time for more is left me
I shall be very happy to avail myself of your
kind offer to communicate specimens from your
Herbaria for examination.

An now, before closing permit me to ask you,
when you will or can do something to further
your american flora? This question, I have
no doubt has been put to you and Dr Gray
so often by all lovers of botany in this country
and by many elsewhere, that you must have
become tired of it! But the necessity for
it is every day felt more deeply!

Very sincerely

yours

G Engelmann
        