
          I read a letter from Buckley a few days since
from Allenton Wilcox Co. Alabama. He informs 
me that he shipped a box of plants for me at
Mobile, directed to your care at New York. Should 
you receive them, please take care of them till
the opening of navigation, when I will send for 
them if I do not go down myself. I have been
so much engaged this winter that I have put up
no plants but mean to do it as soon as possible.
If I have anything you desire, give me a list
& I will attend to it. I have heard nothing from
Part 3 of your Flora & know not whether it is
published or in press. If out, please send me one
by mail. I hoped you would publish two numbers
this winter. You recollect young Bigelow. He is
now in Texas, an assistant Teacher in the College,
I think at Austin. He says he will exert himself
to find all the plants of that country, which I
think will be abundant. He has promised to send us
duplicates when convenient.

N.B. If you have studied the Compositae this winter
you will oblige me much by sending me
names of Asters, Solidagoes & [Helianses?] I left

        