
          that are undescribed. I shall feel extremely gratified 
in receiving your Monograph of the Cyperaceae. Please 
to forward it for mail to Fort Jesup. This family 
has greatly needed illustration. I have never seen your 
descriptions of the Rocky mountain plants. Indeed I 
have laboured under great disadvantages from 
the detached form in which descriptions of plants 
have from necessity been published. Nuttall's Flora Ark. [Arkansas Territory]
is a very important aid but not all that is 
desirable. The plant received from Mr. Beyuch 
might be very properly named Cleomella. I think 
highly probable that Decandolles [De Candolle's] plant is the same.
I have 3 species of a Polyandrous genus bearing 
a strong affinity to the Accacias [Acacias] & Mimosas. 
The plants are erect 12 inches to 2 feet in height 
leaves pinnate Pinnae 15 to 20 pairs. Flowers white 
The genus is not in Nutall's Flora of Arkansaw. [Arkansas] 
Is it among Dr. James' plants. A yellow accacia [acacia] 
noticed in his book was found by myself in the 
Prairies of Alabama in the year 1820. I have since 
seen it both in Louisiania & Arkansaw. [Arkansas]
Fort Jesup is 21 miles from this on the main road leaving 
from Natchitoches to Nagadoches [Nacogdoches] in Texas. I am 
at present within six miles of the Sabine & if I 
remain here I can explore the adjacent parts both 
of Louisiania & Texas. I have requested a month 
furlough for the purpose of exploring both Texas 
& the western part of Louisiania so far as 
may be in my power.  I shall probaly [probably] take 
it betwixt the 15th of April & the 15th or 20th May, 
a season of the year which I deem most

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My species of Cleomella are very good ones.
        