
          Recd. Dec 15th 1837

Camp Sabine Louisiana Nov 20th 1837

Dear Sir

I have now the pleasure to inform you that I have 
prepared as full a suit of specimens of plant collected 
this season as the condition of my Herbarium will admit
& that I am likely soon to have a safe and trusty conveyance
for it under the charge of the late Maj. Riley now Major of  
the 4th Inf. [Infantry] who will as soon as received [added: by] Maj. Glassel proceed
to join his Regt. [Regiment] now in Florida, I have sent you full or 
nearly full collections of the grasses, full collections of the
Cyperacea, and I have endeavoured to make my collections 
of the Compositae as complete [added: as in a press paper] of the Generas Aster & Solidago.
I forward all the species I have observed whether common
with you or not. I presume my names for the plants may 
in some instances be incorrect for I have never had much 
advantage from the collections [added: of others] my operations having
been detached. Such plants as I am desirous should
meet your particular attention are marked with an [symbol] & I have
kept a Catalogue of them. I have put up all the seeds 
in my power. I have also prepared a collections of seeds 
for the Secretary of the Columbian Horticultural 
society which are in your box & which you will oblige
me by transmiting [transmitting]. Since my last I have met with the 
new Cooperia (I now think it notwithstanding the want of 
a tube a Cooperia & the seeds are formed like those of the 
Cooperia Drummondii & disposed in the same way in their
capsules. The seeds are shaped thus [drawing ofctwo ovals] very thin imbricated
the one upon the other & attached by one of their ends to 
the sutures of the valves forming in each of the three
cells 2 piles with their rounded margin outward something,
like a voltaic pile, precisely the same arrangement
exists in the Cooperia Drumonia. The leaves which are
scarcely perceptible in the flowering state are three to four
nearly as long or even in some instances exceeding 
the length of the scape somewhat chaneled above and
somewhat convex beneath, fleshy, subacute_all proceeding
from a common sheath I forward both seeds and capsules.
The leaves of the C Drumondii [Cooperia drumondii] are precisely Similar as
will be seen by the Specimens

        