
          San Marcos Sept. 26th /50

My Dear Sir

I had the pleasure a few days ago of
receiving your of the 28th ult. [ultimo] in reply to mine of June 
last. I did not confidently expect though I hoped you
would answer it. After my return from Port Lavaca I
wrote to Mr. Sullivant and though I requested & expected
an answer he has entirely neglected me & most unfairly
too as I think. Hence it was very gratifying to receive
your kind & sympathetic letter.

I have done next to nothing this past season in collecting
specimens. I sent Dr. G [Gray] a package collected between Houston &
Austin & he wrote me "that I would have done better not to send it."
Yet I had no place to keep it here unless to trouble some friend
with the care of it. Hence although desirous of collecting
for exchange if not for sale I have done but very little
at it. I have occasionally preserved small plants which 
I thought (without books to refer to) had some particular
interest or novelty attached to them. Of larger plants I 
could preserve only scraps some of which I will enclose for
your examination. No. 1 [added: Eucnide Zucc [Eucnide bartonioides Zuccarini] was found in crevices of a high rocky
cliff of the Blanco perfectly desiccate & dead yet with the
flower & (immature?) fruit in a state of complete preservation. 
Its habitat was exposed to the direct rays of the afternoon sun
and it is doubtful whether any rain had fallen on it since
its germination. Branching from the root branches procumbent
(perhaps feeble from its partially shaded place of growth) about 6-12
in. high. The rest the specimen will show. Found in August.
No. 2 was found a few days ago in a cedar thicket on the
bank of the Blanco. Root perennial sending up [added: erect or procumbent] 1-several stems,
12-20 inches [added: high] much branching towards the summit stems leafy-
leaves closely sessile. Fl. [Flowers] white or purplish. Is it a Fuschia?
No. 3 Chrysopsis cilians ([mihi?]) found a few days ago in
crevices of rocks on the back of Blanco. Root perennial
sending up 1-several stems erect of procumbent 12-18 in. high

        