
          companion to the magazine. Douglas' [crossed out: Texas] Californian 
plants (of which I have several plates already 
prepared) will follow after some little as account of 
his travels & tragic end. Drummond's Texas ones
will form a separate paper from those of the [Srn.? [Southern?]]
United Ss. [States] from which they are in many respects 
considerably different. I believe (but am not sure)
that Nees has recieved [received] a full set of Douglas' & Drummond's 
Gramineae & Cyperaceae. Trinius too has 
recieved [received] many if not all the grasses, & I fear 
I shall have some difficulty [causing?] from their 
different opinions. I should have been heartily 
glad if all could have been done by one person 
& if possible that that person had been you. 
But many of these things are common property
& are widely distributed, & you know my habit
to give where I can space to any one, of such things 
as are likely to be useful to one another. Be assured
if I knew what would be interesting to you 
I would send it with the greatest pleasure. Kunth's
volume on the grasses is worse than useless.

How strange that nobody can tell me my anything 
about the hippocastanous plant, not even 
Dr. Spach, who has written expressly on that 
family & who yet pronounces it to be an Hippocastanereous
one. Tis a tree in Texas.

I did not doubt but you would be pleased 
with the willows as being named by Boner.
I think the American willows would form
a nice supplement to the D. [Duke] of Bedford's book 
& I have suggested the thing & offered to make 
the drawings. Nuttall must be a strange being. 
He was lately in the Sandwich islands. Pickering
has not sent me the plants yet. I should certainly
        