
          Recd. [Received] Oct. 25
ansd. [Answered] Dec. 2nd

New Orleans Oct. 10th

My Dear Sir

I shipped yesterday by the Kentucky a 
small portfolio of plants for you, chiefly grasses,
which I hope may prove acceptable. You will have
the goodness to send on board for them. They were
placed in charge of the captain and are some
where in the cabin.

The erroneous references to Elliott in my last resulted
from having lent my copy, and quoted from memory
I allude to the Gentiana & Scirpus quadrang. [quadrangulatus]

I have made this fall a somewhat fruitless 
excursion to the head of Barataria bay. Some of
the meager results are in the port-folio. Tomorrow
I intend taking a tripover the Lake (Pontchartrain)
chiefly with reference to the Cyperaceae & [Symabuthera?]
which I infer from your letter will be most acceptable
to you at present. My collection of the latter
order has been almost entirely destroyed by insects, 
but I hope by seizing every opportunity for collecting
to make out a few sets of our species
for you before long.

One of the most interesting plants in my Barataria
excursion is the Nelumbium codophyllum. The flower
looks exteriorly like a magnolia grandiflora and is 
elevated about a foot above the water on a [?]
[quadrifistulous?] stem. The leaf is full 2 feet in diameter. 
I [missused?] it in consequence of Mr. Eaton's (?)
        