Rec'd March 26th S.Francisco March 8,1864 
Dear Friend 
I am sorry to learn from your letter of February 2, that I have 
been condemned to death, and my historical exploration, or, rather 
hypothesis has become untenable. Never-the-less you belong to an 
older and honpefully more virtuous generation than I and my .once. 
3»: LILONG, 
The Sagittaria has now also died in my garden, and that throuesh 
the same zeological process, which antidiluvianized your „.ece.....0 
She has been buried under a post-zreological layer of sand, where 
one may hardly find stranze survivals of Australian plants, a 
submereed civilization, which was mostly occupied with the forma- 
tion of bottles. Bolander considers the species identical with 
Sarittaria sarittifolia. He should know better, but interdum Cho- 
nar dormit Homera ( a reference to the classical "quamquam dormit 
Homerus", sometimes Homer sleeps, alias makes a mistake. E.D.) 
Anyhow it would be most surprising if our europaean Sagittaria 
was identical with the cultivated chinese plant. 
Quercus wislizenii will be obtained and I shall chase Rdder 
one of these days after this oak species and I shall make Bolander 
aware of it. The name Wislezinus sounds by-the-way very much of 
Halle, but may-be my problem with the poeple-from Halle 1s the 
same as that of old school-teachers, who see erverywhere Greeks 
and Romans. 
It is unfortunate that your academy has no entomologist. 
The Mississippi valley has generally speaking been searched quite 
imperfectly so far, and I suspect there many entomological curio- 
sities, 
MIıiSSOURI 
. BOTANICAL 
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