40 ox not at all anticipated y me, TI await wit impatience the 
#rectes 0£ Euphonlia which you have promised me and today they 
might &e on the mailloat in Le Havre, I am aLlso sending you 
with all possille haste fragments prertaining to the olserpations 
which T have made and questions T have naised. Concerning those 
okservations whci IT have made from examples in other hernlarniums 
Î am of course unalle to provide proof. L have asked for samples 
rertatning Lo some of the more important points Lo Le packaged 
and sent to you, 
LT {ind today on many grounds difficulties in deéciding 22e 
classification 0£ Anisophyllae.Whicheper chanactenistie one 
chooses it is difficult,I£f one chooses the seed and tIno?2res 
the flower clusters it becomes very artificial, 
Kdotsch ywho had promised to strighten out Euphorkhia has Lost 
patience. There is only a small sample in DeCandolle's herbarium 
and on£y a fraction of what we have,The work £s not Leisurely 
and he wouêd not have enough material in Cologne.Where Britton 
4 concerned ,ÿh£4 work Ls of such poor quality Ghid A LS Les 
on the nature of the Euphorliae ane quite unter able 
Farewell my dear friend with my kindest regards to yeband thanks 
£or all your contrilutions 
C-PoIisS 1er 
Geneve Fel,.,8 1860 
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