
          But you will be pleased to know 
 that I have just received from Mr. 
 Harvey a letter dated Decr. [December] 31 (in answer 
 to mine accompanying copy of Text Book sent 
 a year ago!) with a parcel containing 
 what I asked after, viz. a set of the 
 duplicates of Coulter's California plants.
 Very nice specimens, and a fine accession 
 to my herbarium. The Romneya
 (Poppy) is among them, also at fiddle-
 shaped podded Crucifera. The collection
 is not so like Fremont's as I supposed it 
 would be, evidently all from along the coast 
 of California, or on the mountains near the 
 coast, almost all identical with Douglass's, 
 but occasionally one different from his, 
 Nuttall's, or Chamisso's. The collection 
 generally seems to indicate that the botany
 of the coast of California is pretty well-known. 


 I have been laying them out [crossed out: for qluing] for
 for gluing, at odd moments, and determining 
 some families for Harvey, but shall keep 
 them altogether till you come, if that is 
 soon. Such duplicates as there 
 [are not least?] where I know you are not
 already well supplied I am laying aside
 for you as I go, and there is occasionally
 a bit for Carey also.
        