
          Fremont writes me that you have seen his plants, and
 that they are in a miserable condition. He promised me
 duplicates, but I suppose there are none to spare.
 I have got letters from Geyer from Fort Colville, Oregon
 from April last; he will not send any plants here, but take
 them to England. Mr Lüders had collected nothing last
 spring, when Fremont saw him on the Columbia, he had
 lost every thing in the river. I have no further news
 from him. Lindheimer is collecting in the west of Texas,
 and a large box must be on the Mississippi now from
 him, if not lost in some snagged steamboat.


 If you will name those plants of Lindheimers, which
 you wish especially I will try to procure them for you
 just give me the numbers if you can get at them.
 Dr Gray must have now near 300 numbers, and I hope
 to get a hundred more in the next box. As Mr. Lindh.
 does not make a general collection, I think plants from
 other parts than Texas would at present be of no
 interest to him.


 Of Rumices I know nothing; I have long ago
 however distributed an apparently new species allied
 to R. [Rumex] acetosella, also [dioecious?], growing here, and I find
 also in Arkansas & Texas; I had named it R. angustifolius
 (near R. angustissimus Ledebour, from Siberia).
 If it should not be known to you, I will send you
 specimens.


 Amaranthaceae & Chenopodiaceae I have not studied
 principally because I have no work, which I could use.
 The same is the case with the interesting families of
 Gramineae & Cyperaceae. A want of books has always 

        