
          My limited knowledge of Botany Comprehends only the principal
 Commoner plants of New York State, and the rarer plants
 I profess myself but little acquanted with scientifically.


 Many of my specimens are poorly prepared for the
 reason that in my long hunts I was not prepared always
 with a very extensive arrangement for preserving them
 properly. I used mostly a book, till I could transfer to
 sheets of newspaper. But among most of the quadruplicates
 you may be able to single out one or two good specimens.
 Where one attends to as many things as I have done, some 
 will be executed unequally well with as others, between
 Collecting and writing in regard to Birds, fishes and plants
 beside packing when Collecting, a heavy rifle and Conveniences
 for preparing birds, plants would sometimes suffer altho'
 I took pains to obtain every one at all apparently unknown,
 I found that many commons plants were to found here, such
 as the Hypoxis Erecta, Potamogetons, varieties of Ribes and Salix
 Menthas Malvas &c but did not collect them, merely taking
 notes of their existence. I never saw the Datura Strammonium [Stramonium]
 anywhere in N [New] Mexico but at Fort Webster, I believe it is rare
 here. The Common Sun flower springs Spontaneously everywhere
 where the ground has been cultivated never I believe, unless,
 Land shells I never met with beyond the Commonest of Helix.
 It will be a matter of the greatest pleasure to me to furnish 
 you with notes for the specimens obt'd [obtained] if I am so fortunate
 as to be in New York some time hence. Even if you only have
 these notes for your own private specimens they will be of use.
 Our mails are so extramely unreliable that I hardly like to 
 send you many plants in paper and those I may send will 
        