
          Leiu't [Lieutenant] McDowell a box of near 500 plants. Those
plants I intended after you had taken what
you might want to be in exchange for
some of the Spanish plants you & Dr. Gray were
so kind to offer me. One of the parcels
in the box contained some 20 or 30 plants I 
would be glad you or Dr. Gray would name
for me according to their numbers.

And could either of you spare time to look
over all the others & make the necessary
corrections it would be quite a favor to me. 
As I mentioned in my letter (by Lt. McDowell)
it is my intention (as soon as I hear about them)
to have printed a list of all the plants around here
(near 1000) that I have collected myself.
Although a small it may not be an unacceptable
service to our botanical friends. My collections
here will afford a pretty fair representation of the
flora of the central parts of this state. A number
of them are not catalogued in [John Leonard] Riddell's synopsis.
Have you determined on the Eleocharis I sent
you last summer? You thought it might possibly
be the tortilis of Schult. It is certainly very distinct
from any thing in your monograph. Have
you examined the Loniceras? You were inclined
to think there were too many species in the books.
The one I sent you last summer I should think
from my limited means of judging would
perhaps prove as good a species as any of them

Yours truly, W.S. Sullivant
        