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Frasmentary letter by Dr. Georg Engelmann. No Date,No Address 
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Manır I believe Georg is an excellent young man,who was recently 
on the Sandwich 4slands, and now Gray's assistant or curator in 
Cambridge, I wrote to Gray about it. 
On the map I find Winnepeseogee and the information, that the 
lake is 22 english miles long. 
Mansfield is a mountain in Vermont east of Lake Champlain, 1280 
foot high. 
No, I never have seen I. muricata,but I wrote for it, 
I rivaria near Philadelphia was long known under the nane 1. 
lacustris. Dr. Wm. S. Zantzinger sent specimens to nme. But Nuttall, 
who lived lonz in Philadelphia says in Gerera III 253 (1818) lacus- 
tris abundand along the inundated gravelly and mirey shores of 
the De Caevare near Philadelphia and other places also in the State 
of New York. 
Barton, Compendium Floxga Philadelphiae vol. II (1818) says the 
same pe. 213 on the overflowed’ shores of the Delaware above Ken - 
sineton, (suburb of Philadelphia) very abundand,. 
Putsh | 
__Pauh in contrast (1816) knows of only one locality in westerly 
New Vork,the earlier area of Paine,which, as he says has not been 
found again,but refers probably to I.echinosperma considering the 
veosraphy. 
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Michaux knows no IlIsoetes 
who generally did not publish anything 
besides Compositae is trip to Oregon and California. As far 
as the Flora of Torrey and Gray goes they published his itens. 
It is quite questionable if the Celtis species is different. 
I shall look for fruits.; ditto Triosteum, which is common enough 
here, 
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