
          as might be anticipated.

Doct. [Doctor] Gray writes me that the angular [chap?]
which yourself & he set down as a superannuated
sedum turns out to be a new relative of
your favorite Eriogonums. After you left Cambridge 
we found that it was not a sedum.
Dr. G. [Gray] says that he sent it to you to forward
to Mr. Bentham & throws himself upon my 
generosity for more. I have enough to 
supply you both & I enclose a small one
& will [save?] you a letter to forward bye & bye.
What is his name? Or is that left to Benth [Bentham].
This plant comes from a region which I
regret I had so short a time at, San
Felipe. It is just where the proper California
vegetation, that of the coast, ends, & we enter 
upon the borders of the desert. Within a short
distance of each other I found the Zizyphus
([Xylocarpon [Xylocarpus]?) Simmondsia, a new Dysodia, 
the Rutosma, or Thamnosma. (This rose by
any other name would smell as sweet)
& some other things. Near here, coming eastward,
we fall in with Algarobia, Prosopis & the 
everlasting Larraea [Larrea], apropos de  Larraea, Maj. [Major]
        