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ladelphia in October 1860. There seem to be enouech strange tFings 
to exist and different from what you would expect, 
The tubers of the young plants are not yet lobed under, 
but only sideways and upward, at least now in May. 
Today is Whitsuntide, and despite glorious weather I spend 
the day like all others, making sick-calls, receiving sicK people in 
my "office", and a few allotrias,of which one is to research the 
1ittle plants of some Isoetris, and then I will try to close this 
letter, so that you may have it in hand in 3 weeks. Before I con - 
tinue with the Isoetes I must return to the rushes „ Many thanks 
to Roiper for the plentyful material of Juncus scirvoides Lamarck |! 
It is, as already mentioned by Meyer in Kinnes 3.0220 css 1 10. ‚the same 
which Gay named macrostemon ‚but of this one there exist two forms, 
the one is that,which is described by Gay,which is rarer and more 
southerly, the other is the Lamarck plant, which shows some differen- 
ces. I am sorry, that, when I asked for scirpoides I did not think 
at the same time of 2 In the meantime you have forwar- 
ded my request to Roeper, or in the process of printing I forgot, and 
decided to adapt without autopsy the name Lamarck,despite the fact, 
that our american botnists have eradicated him totally. 
Of the californian Charae, please eive some to Leonhard 
(Bolander asks also for them) with my greetings. He received the dis. 
sertation and Leonardi’'s., 
(There is no formal endine to this letter nor 
a sienature, E.D.) 
(translated from German Script by Edear Denison 
St. Louis, Mo. December 1987 ) 
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