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is largely due to Lindheimer's aid in the work. At the end 

 of the season they appear to have exchanged a set of the col- 

 lections made by each during the year, and Roemer, on his 

 return to Germany, placed Lindheimer's with his own bo- 

 tanical specimens in the hands of Adolph Scheele, Pastor at 

 Heersum near Hildesheim, who prepared a list of the species 

 for Roemer's ''Texas," and published the descriptions in 

 Linnaea from 1848 to 1852 in his "Beitrage zur Flor von 

 Texas." Not only did he publish the "new species" of 

 Roemer's collecting, but also those found among Lindheimer's 

 duplicates,* though he knew that Engelmann and Gray had 

 already undertaken to describe these collections in their 

 Plantae Lindheimerianae, and so industriously did he con- 

 tinue his work that he soon completely outdistanced his 

 American competitors ^nd left little for them to describe. 

 This may have had something to do with the discontinuance 

 of the Plantae Lindheimerianae, but not the slightest blame 

 can be attached to Lindheimer, for he doubtless had no idea 

 that any publication on his own collection was intended at 

 the time the exchange was made. Nor was this the chief 

 cause of the discontinuance of Engelmann and Gray's publi- 

 cation, for not only was this left unfinished at the end of the 

 Compositae, but also all other lists then in course of publica- 

 tion by Gray, as the Plantae Wrightianae, Plantae Fendlerianae 

 and Plantae Novae Thurberianac,— all crowded out by the pres- 

 sure of more urgent work and pubUcation, and never com- 

 pleted. 



In 1846 the tide of German immigration turned northwest- 

 ward to the Piedernales (or Padernales) River, where Friede- 

 richsburg was founded in what is now Gillespie County, and 

 Lindheimer accompanied a train of settlers to this point early 

 in 1847 and collected in this vicinity till September, when he 

 pushed still farther north into the Indian country along with 

 the Darmstaedter Kolonie,t the so-called ''communistic col- 

 ony of Bettina," which occupied lands between the Llano 



♦ Of the species from Texas described as new by Scheele, 73 were col- 

 lected by Lindheimer and 66 by Roemer. 



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