
          lower leaves unknown (for the rest see specimen). I send along with
it [carat: for comparison] a fragment of C[allitris] canesens found near it & from which it hardly
differs in its flowers fruit & receptacle. C canesens grows here
[?] over all the prairies. This I have found only in one locality.
They are quite different in habit & can I think hardly be identical. 
The [carat: involution of the] former is somewhat glutinous.

I have sent off to San Antonio my trunk with my books or
I might by [sequence?] to H. Lindh. [Ferdinand Lindheimer] find some of these plants described. 
Yet I have found many plants and in the very county traversed
by Lndheimer undescribed in the account of his plants - [?] - Nymphaea
mexicana, [?] wrightii, two species of [Coelostyles?] or something
near is [carat: all] found on the Guardalupe, a Paesiflora found at Port Lavaca
very different from anything described in the Flora or H. Lindh. an
Aquilegia (canadensis?) found at Austin & on the Blanco. Desmodium
wrightii found at Austin and common on the Blanco besides others which
I can not now remember. The few plants that I have saved the past
summer I have sent to Lindheimer to be by him forwarded with 
his collection dro Dr. Gray or [George] Engelmann.

Dr. Gray gave me no intimation of the time of his return 
from Europe yet using the privelege of my birthright I
guessed that he would soon return and about two weeks ago
I wrote him a long letter enclosing two very good specimens
of No. 1 which I hope he will divide with you if you desire it.

When I was in new York I was earnestly desired by the ornithologist
of your lyceum of Nat. Hist. to procure specimens of birds and particular
of a small species of kingfisher which I saw I had seen here.
This morning I procured a specimen but I do not know how to
send it but by letter in which the head will make a protuberance
of no little magnitude.

I would remark that I have good specimens of the plants above
mentioned and if they should prove new or of special interest I hope
to furnish your herbarium with one for authority.
Present to Miss Eliza with whom I have some acquaitance
and accept for yourself the kind regards of

Your ob'd't serv't

Charles Wright
        