
          although none, perhaps, could be better qualified than himself
to discharge the duties of botanist to such a voyage, yet we
can illy spare him from our own ranks. I look with much
anxiety to the continuance of his excellent and useful work 
on our grasses &c. By the bye what has become of the 
copy of your monograph on the Cyperaceae which you promised
me? That also of the Polygaleae I should like to have,
and must therefore make arrangements for obtaining the Annals
of your Lyceum as they are published. Our med. [medical] Library
has the 2 first volumes only. How much more is 
printed? I would thank you to tell Dr. Gray that I am
preparing to contribute my mite towards his outfit in the 
form of a portable press which I will send to Mr. Dobson
in the course of a day or two. He will please direct D. [Dobson] how to 
forward it to him.

I am very glad to hear that you have found
something in my last parcel to puzzle and interest you, in the 
little cruciferous plant from Texas. I have but one single specimen
myself, but I have written to Dr. Leavenworth, who is
now stationed at Fort Jessup, La. [Fort Jesup, Louisiana], to endeavour to obtain you
an ample supply of it. He speaks of making a foray into 
the Spanish territories, next Spring, where he will have an opportunity
of getting it, if not within our own limits. You do 
not mention a cruciferous plant from this neighbourhood which 
I sent you a poor specimen of, having only found one myself. 
I suppose it a Vesicaria. Is it so? What I supposed
the Cardamine uniflora, Mx. [Michaux]. I have never seen but in one

        