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efforts, which, obviously, were initiated by you. Be kind enoueh 
to give him the enclosed letter and the ferns;i.e. you may keep 
the ferns but let him compare then. 
I received a long letter from Caspari: about Nymphaeeae. 
he ceot so carried away, that he did not even take time to saya 
word about wife and child; nor about the Nuphar received from me. 
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But about the latter he willj/most likely an exhgutive report la- 
ter. Give him my greetings. 
Bolander sent me the enclosed Salagrinella, possibly known to 
you from New Mexico and California; he is very active and sent 
beautiful ferns. 
Your G. Engelmann 
(translated from German script by Edgar Denison 
St. Louis, Mo. December 1987 ) 
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