wherin he formalizes the american Ilsoetes poorly;.making a mistaken 
identity; Isoetes muricata is supposed to come rom -Canby’and had been 
raisedvin Bordeau from specimens from Delaware. However, Canby writes,. 
I. muricata apparently came from him; but he does not know, what it is; 
But Boott was to have collected the plants near Boston. I have turned to 
Boottt - Could now the No.1 of Boott! fron Canby this muricata ? 
Tuckerman writes to Me: (in Enelish, B:Ds) 
t IT scarsely deserve the compnlment proposed by Prof. Braun, I got the 
plant,referred at the time to I. rinaria. .In the Mystic River in Med- 
fort,near Bostonrat a spot,which thourh very near, where the river issues 
from the fresh waters of the Mystic Pond,is still affected by the tide." 
entire 
His specimens aS well as his herbarium were in Europe; I belleve 
in the hands of Fries.. 
I find, that one gets the sporesS of Isoetes much better,if one 
soakes the leaf base and then spreads the wet spores on glass;they dry 
then and remain undamaged.- 
The last of the rushes will be printed this week, I assıme, I wrote 
to you about the strange Juncellus, which I have named’ Juncus biformis,. 
one-flowered and two-parted or 2-3-flowered and 3-parted ! 
Iam still examining flowering Nuphar varlum if a species "If & 
form of advena ? ! Greetines to Yours, Your 
G, Englemann 
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