St. Louis April 8,1866 
Dear Braun 
Many, many thanks for both the paperbacks of Meyer. Please, 
have vour expenses reimbursed by Mettenius, who functions as ban- 
ker in matters botanrical. I recently mailed a Salarinella from Ca- 
lifornia but, today, there is nothine to be enclosed but ‚,ore re- 
auests and tribulations. 
In Roeper's Lamarckian herbarium repose two plants,which 
are very important to me, one is Juncus scirpoides, Lam. ‚the 
other Juncus pallesotus ‚Lame. I would like to get a fragment or 
minute piece of both to conmpare and define the spores. J.talleso- 
nica has been dropped here, whereas J.scirpoides is a name still 
in use. 1 believe, that both names comprise two very variable and 
voluminous sets of species, The latter desigrnate our "Head - 
rushes" (verbatim translation of Kopfbinsen,E.D.),the other is 
most likely Juncus fraternus(as well as paradoxus ) and Grege's 
J. debilis - But, I do not want to bother you any more with these 
sffairs. But get me samples of both entirely different species , 
samples or tiny ones. I would be glad to give ........... in rTe- 
turn. 
Dr. Chapman in Apalachiola writes to me: 
"The Isoetes ,„ which you consider to be lL.Engelm,and which I have 
entered in to my Flora as I. flaccida,, covers the limestone bot- 
tom of a bay-lake, one foot deep,near Marlanna in western Florida, 
where I collected it 10-12 years aro;ifir&m>1837 to 1860 I lived 
in that area and came often to that bay-lake,which was entirely 
clear, without water plants"!ti How did it get there ? (throueh 
wildfowl- E.) ??7° 
The locality of Rugel is Lake Jamonria (I-a-mo-ni-a) not Tamo- 
nia in middle Florida,25-30 miles south of Talahassee 
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