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then the polycotyledons, the flowerless plants, like the ferns and club-mosses, 
algae, and fungi and lichens. The dicotyledons were divided into polypeta- 
lae and apetalae. This was the order till the time of the death of Engelmann. 
Since the time of Engelmann, Engler and Prantl, and others since their 
time, have tried to arrange plants in the natural order, beginning with the 
Engelmann, because of his microscopic methods of going into every 
detail of structure, confined his work to certain families and genera of 
wanted to take a swim in Great Salt Lake. No visit to Salt Lake City is 
complete till you have taken a swim in the dead sea of America. So I was 
invited to go with him and Parry on the morrow, to the lake. iving 
we found much difficulty in getting a suit large enough to cover his ample 
midsection, for he was wider than a New York alderman’ there, but at last 
got him duly covered ,and he walked out into the water. The ubiquitous 
was nearly dead, and coughed terribly till the water was all out of his lungs. 
Then a very severe inflamation set in that sent him to bed for some days. 
My correspondence with Dr. Engelmann continued till his death. 
He was the head and front of the Missouri Botanic Garden and the 
great herbarium there. One of his most intimate friends was Shaw, a rich 
man, for whom Agave Shawii was named. Before Engelmann’s death the 
garden was called the Shaw Botanic Garden, but after his death the name 
was changed to the present one 
Dr. En 
Dr. Eng was a most intimate friend of Gray and the other great 
botanists of his time. 2 S 
