
          Rec'd June 18th [?]

Port Lavaca June 4th 1830

My Dear Dr.

I have just deposited for shipment
to you with Fulton Hesley via 2 boxes - one containing
Cactaceae Echinocereus caespitosa Mammillaria
sulcata & Echinacactus setispinus. They will doubtless
be wroth the freight - if anything more give me credit for
them. The other contains some small plants of my collection
this season such as I could save in books. It likewise
contains my winter collection of Cryptomanae closed up
in separate parcels - the mosses and hepaticae for [William Starling] Sullivant
the lichens for [Edward] Tuckerman, & the fungi for [?] - but 
consult Dr. Gray on the dispersal of them. I would have sent
them to him but feared he would be fone to Europe before
they would reach him. There are also a few shells 
for Agassiz & a fossil of two. You will find a small 
Hedyotis which I am pretty sure Dr. Gray has received
from noone but me & I think it is rare. Should it prove 
to be new you will gratify me by namign it suviscosa
a very appropriate name.

I am preparing for my journey westward but
have yet to received no means for carrying my plans into
effect. I hope however on my return (in 8-10 days) to
San Marcos to find there bills of credit which will enable
me to raise the money for my expenses. On account of a
rather careless arrangement in shipping [crossed out: I had to abandon]
my paper. I have just received it & I had [waited?]
so long [crossed out: to] for it & remittances of money that I had abandoned
        