
          Recd [Received] April 2nd


 Wednesday, Midnight, 31st 


 My Dear Friend, 


 Thanks for yours of 23rd & 29. 
 The former brought the specimens quite safe, 
 the latter came this afternoon.


 I am going to make up a parcel 
 for you to-morrow, or I will let it be till 
 I hear from you again, to know if there is 
 anything you think of, [added: besides.] I have laid aside 
 for you, a lot of Punch.


 DeCaisnes paper on Asclepiads, which 
 I have bound, I send the vol. [volume]. 
 I wish to send also the Asclepiads, from the 
 yet unstudied Lindheimer Collections of which the 
 last came yesterday. I will send them all 
 to you in the parcel, with one or two Acanthaceae,
 as soon as I hear from you again (Monday?)
 As to Sullivants Asclepias I have not the 
 fruit, but it is on the way to me in a 
 box from S. [Sullivant] stopped by winter. S. [Sullivant] showed it to 
 me. It is soft-spinose, like A. [Asclepias] Cornuti. My 
 flowers from Sullivant are not very good, like yours, 
 but I pluck 2 and a [head?] from [crossed out: Sul [Sullivant's]) Engelmann's
 specimen (loaned to me) which I enclose in E.'s [Engelmann's]
 label, which you can return, i.e. the label.

        