St. Louis, Harch 18,1866 
Dear Braun, 
Yesterday I received your lines written in bed;hopefully,you 
have recovered long ago and at your normal robust activity. The 
letter about Isoetes melanopoda I expect very soon here; Nothing 
\s more encouraging than such reports for participation and inte - 
rest for people like Haller and, really everybody - a splendid en- 
couragement for renewed activity. 
For this reason, do not forset Bolander and his Charae and 
nz 
Mitellae. What is that large and thick Mitella from the Water-rar- 
den of St. Franeisco ? 
Our communications are oneringe again slowly. I had letters 
from Lindheimer from Texas and Chapman from Florida. Etzhoern (? R«Ds} 
is well and about and wrote for his newspaper reeularly durine all 
those 5 years; the Germans lean mostly to the South,are being threa- 
tened a lot, but (always armed) have not been assaulted yet, nor 
hung as traitors - he writes,there was hardly any danger in a Ger- 
man neleshbourhood and much denying now, that they had ever any sym- 
pathy for the South. Financial conditions there seem to be good 
thanks to active trade with Mexico during the war with much silver 
comine into the country while confederate zoods did not trade any 
more than federal ones now. He has done nothine in botany. 
Dr. Chapman in Florida sent me his Isoetes flaccida ard a 
specimen of which I sent you fragments; it is unripe,but the spores 
are quite different from flaccida and the entire habitat probably 
more like Engelmanni. In lakes with clear water over lime-rubhle. 
I have asked him for more details. In Benistandis 
- EV, 
where I find many Kagel pe [ plants I.flaccida is not to be found. 
Were you able to examine good specimens ? 
Of the fern books you probably ordered the old Rostkovitz - 
a Eu 3 
# T 
. 4} hi hu ? - z - y y 4. . $ 7 J ®; nr 4-1. > 67 In - — f f 
I would doubt,that Laharpe can be obtained.Many thanks for Garke's 
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