
          Recd Feb 16th
Ansd April 6th

Rodney Miss. Feb 20 1841

Dear Sir
I have long been promising myself the pleasure
of replying to your kind letter of October last which came 
safe to hand in due time, but thinking that I should visit
New Orlears in the early part of the winter I delayed on
that accound that I might forward you at the same time
the small collection of plants that I had made for
you during the summer and fall. Circumstances have
prevented my visiting New Orleans as early as I expected
and I sent the box containing the articles for you
by a friend who promised to put them on board of some
ship bound to New York.

The specimens that are numbered I
have kept samples of and should be greatly obliged by you
for some short account of their botanical history.

The Jackson purslane, clover, or grass as it is famously
called is to me a curious little affair as it springs up in 
the fall and the early part of winter and continuous full
and blooming through frosts and storms till spring.

The old planters and farmers about here say that
it was unknown in the country until after Gen Jackson marched
through with his army in 1813. Should it prove to be a new
species I would request that its name be continued
after that wonderful man in whose footsteps its sprung
up and after when it has already been named by
the planters of the country. It does not appear to
belong to the family of the Portulaca though nothing is
        