Mia zeeeeee. (of which I have now three) much for Isoetes , so far 
withont result. I. opaca can not be reported ("reported" may be an 
incorrect translation as the german word is illerible. E.D.) 
I do not find a good, examplary diagnosis and description 
of I. species anyplace. Neither you nor Diel offer one: always only 
notes | 
I do not know, if I wrote you already, that I.A.Laphan did send 
some notes about Dr.Ulanderly,which I will transfer to you sone - 
times; Accordingly he was born in Hanau in 1818,went to Milwaukee, 
from there in 1846 to Texas, married in 1848 in M.,went to Germany 
in 1856 and died in Milwaukee on Feb.20,1858 of consumption, 39 years 
old. 
Of Laphan's rushes many are from your hand,all properly identi- 
fied and collected by you. Laphan aquired the collection of Wunder - 
lich besides zuukk&rxone from another German doctor in Milwaukee, 
by name of F.J.Junge; but his rushes are very wrongly identifled; 
of them I find one with his name from Rastadt I. squarrosus ,„ so he 
must have probably been _from Baden (4) . 
Möttenius asked earlier about Teschenmacher,who is supposed to 
have described ferns from the Sandwich Island (the former name of 
Hawaii, E.D.) which most likely had to be from Sumatra or the re - 
verse ? They could not be from Sumatra. Gray wrote to me about it 
some time ago. Teschenmacher died here in Boston 10 years back; he 
himself was never in the Sanswich Islands nor Sumatra, but had a son 
who did send him the ferns from the Sandwich Islands. 
Bıyerıs. Ssrter VO year, <annse eu e une. DAS written To me 
and the shipping of my package with Juncus_ ........ Michaux and 
others 
see attached page for comments, E.D. 
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