Received September 2x 
Anss=Vctober 17 
Ber Lın,2Au9.224,.21073 
Möst honored. Doctor! 
I received today a tin box with a mess of mussels from 
Key West Florida where it had been collected at your instigation 
by“Count Ponstales on April '21,1868 and then -rorwarded warı 
the help of Profs.A. Gray and A.Braun. 
Please accept my heartfelt thanks for this valuable even 
if late arriving material. There were’the same three spece’e> 
colLlected’ By Wright on the coast of Coaba 
pg.2 
which are naturally not known in’the USA FTora. Tieren once 
plant of Chapman s which is similar to Na,a was üntorL.un.g 
not there; its systematic assiognment is no longer in doubt 
since I have seen a small colleetion of genuine Halophılal 
Halophila Baillonis). Acesrding to the’struetenr. or nee ee 
it must be if not a genuine Halophila( which one cannor deiernıve 
without the’£flower.) a very sımılar group, Tenvroperzraı 
now called Halophila? Engelmanni. 
Might“*it;,not ‘be possäblfe "för You to obtain for me Chapman 
zoster marina from Florida? Since 
Pd.2%, 
3 west. indian. species are, knewn.to exist on the söurnern 
of. an island-in. Florıda Keys, tne vossipiliiy oo a preueı 
the temperaturesensitive Zoöster along the gulf seems unlikely. 
Ponstales calls Thalamia eel-grass and Cymodocea nanacorum Lurtle 
grass and it seems to me likely that Chapman entered it as 
zoster. Achalic versions are common in european mountains where 
they. have been found by. Vivaanı and Morıs sccordnpl no, 
and  called’Zoster marina. Hopefuilv rhesnott ces, py Grave 
? «wille result in.clarırfleabıon. orfsche standing or ee 
among the grasses- 
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