
          collected there by Berlandier, 
that there is
much novelty yet to
be discovered, more than
on the Pacific side of
America & if I mistake
not Engelman [Engelmann] or you
did send some one there.
I now find among Geyer’s
plants a perfectly distinct
Myosurus, the M. apetalus of Gay’s Fl. [Flora] of Chili [Flora chilena],
from which latter
country I have it also.

Do you continue your
tours in the State of
N. [New] York, for botanical
investigations? or
have you completed
that labour. You
        