
          Recd. Nov. 6th

Camp Sabine Louisiania October 4th 1837

My Dear Sir

Your esteemed favours of the 22 & 26th containing
comments upon the plants I have at different
times transmitted you. For these comments accept
my thanks. I am happy that you find among them
some new and interesting species, I have though [thought] that
I might by this time make up another parcel for you
to forward as far as N. Orleans, Pr Maj. Riley but
I am glad the Maj. has not left this as he anticipated
he might do by this time; as it will give me more
time for collections also for the proper examination
and arrangement of my specimens. As I anticipated
when I last wrote to you. I took an excursion in
some parts of Texas & Louisiana which I had not
previously visited. I was absent five days & made
the excursion on extremely interesting among other
things I met, with the Cooperia drummondii (fine specimens)
also the new Cooperia if Cooperice it be of which
I have 1/2 dosen [dozen] good specimens one of which I enclose.
The new species of Hypericum contained in the box [crossed out: last]
also one of the new graminea, a species of Poligonum [Polygonum]
with [crossed out: flowers] [added: spikes] arranged in showy panicles, leaves [crossed out: linear?]
linear acute numerous, the species of Ampelopsis
noticed in a former letter. I hope to enable you to describe
this plant altho it is almost literaly impossible
to preserve good specimens. a species of Galardia
with both the Ray & disk bright yellow. I have not
minutely examined [added: it] I think however it may be new. 
a Bidens with pinatifid [pinnatifid] leaves & Rays fuly as conspicuous 
as those of the Chrysanthemoides, this I have
before seen in the vicinity of St Louis, It is not
described in any work that I have. Your trip to Essex
County [added: was extremely interesting]. I should be much pleased to posess specimens
of the alpine plants that you mention in your letter.
The plant I named Laurus I doubt not is the Fosteria Hook [Hooker][I took]
it to be a Laurus merely from the habit I never gave

[in margin] 
The Taste of the bulb of the Cooperia drummondii is nauseous & disagreeable & probably may
have medical properties similar to the Squill.
        