
          Recd. Apr. 7th                          Philadelphia, March 30th 1836
And. Apr 10th

Dear Sir,
I have managed to [?] a point, and send 
you a fragment of nearly all that is contained in the [Uyethian?] Collection.
Mr. Nuttall left them in my charge, without any directions as
to the duplicates, and there were some plants he set such store by that
he would not spare them even for the Academy.- At the same time he
-I have no doubt however that he intended one set of duplicates for
you, and have accordingly taken out one wherever there have been three specimens,
and n other instances, fragments, though I am afraid you will hardly
consider them such.- As Hooker is describing the same plants, it may be
important that the fuller-set should be sent to him; but perhaps you can
get Nuttal on his return to make up the complement of your set, out of
the remainder.- I think it important there should be two Herbariums
of American Plants, as one might be destroyed by fire.
I see as I suspected the larger [spikelet?] from [Turinan?], belongs to a
smaller plant, though perhaps still of the genus Diplasia- I return you a
leaf, as there is but a simple specimen, contained in Schweinitz's herbarium under
the name of "Carex Indica", from [Turinan?], by Hering.- I do not consider myself 
competent to give an opinion as to the structure of the flowers, not having
made it a study in the Cyperaceae.
Two species of Cyperus, constitute all of the Family in La Sagra's plants
- and indeed the Monocotyledone were very scarce, compared with the [Turinan?]
Collection.- I am not at all surprised at these being so many undescribed plants
end of the Island.- In the Tropicks everything grows up into trees, which you
know are the aversion of most botanists.-That part of Mexico borderng on
the Gulf must be even less known, as Mr. Dickehert of the State of Vera Cruz,
(where the vegetation must be as rich as in Brasil) told me, these were several
species of the Aurantiacea wild there, some very singular.
I am indeed obliged to you for the Texas plants-they form
a very interesting addition to the North American flora.- I perceive [illegible]
among them several of Nuttall's Arkansas plants, which I suppose he will
        