
          Glasgow, Novr [November] 9, 1825.

My dear Sir

I wrote to you by the last monthly packet, 
sent you Brown's appendix to Parry's Voyage
& mentioned that your parcel for me had arrived 
in the river, but had not come up to me. I 
soon after recieved [received] it & return you my grateful 
acknowledgement for the nice plants it
contains. Many of them have interested me 
very much: but none so much as the little 
plants from your James' Expedition. I have 
examined them with great satisfaction & I wish 
I could give you any observations upon them that 
would be useful to you. Few, however, will afford
a flower for maceration & dissection & they 
are too precious to sacrifice entirely.

No. 1. appears to me to be an Arnica & perhaps Arnica angustifolia
Vahl. [Vahl] & Hook. [Hooker] in Parry's 2d Voy. [Voyage].
No. 2. An Astragalus or Phaca, new to me.
No. 3. Perhaps a Lathyrus, new to me.
No. 4. Habit of Castilleja, but I have not a 
flower fit for examination. 
No. 5. Spiraea ulmaria , not far removed from S. ulmaria [Spiraea ulmaria].
        