St.Louis August 2,1%70 
Dear Braun 
Your letter of June 22 is in my hands for 3 weeks.And how 
the sun has chaneed since you wrote and change has occured for youl 
A large, serious, bloody fisht sufdenly stands in front of you while 
vou dreamed to be in deepest peace I How I would like to be with 
youand look at the developments and experience them. Today already 
a about fishting near Saarbrficken, fortifications on the Upper 
Rhein and dAtly we receive columns and pages of telegraphic reports; 
What happens at 2 ass. in the morning in Berlin, London or Faris, 
we read at breakfast in our newspapers.. 
Obviously your thoushts are not with Char@®, Isoetes or Vitis, 
and yet in such times it is best to continue living in one's quiet 
path and to work, as long as one cannot enter into the events one- 
self. You went throush this in the years of the 48es ard we in the 
erest Civil War. 
Nothing further about Isoetes eranulatg, but I received from 
Lake Oneida in westerly New York and from alpine waters (Source of 
the Bear River, which flows into the Great Salt Lake)of the Rocky 
Mountains Isoetes Braunii (in part with a few stomata);I have not 
vet seen the new Californdans. 
I have seed of Sedum pulchellum and enclose in the meantime some. 
They remind me of Juncus seed with their outer capsules.Could one 
not find of them beautiful gametes ? Do compare them with Sedum 
Hispanicum and related ones, 
I have in front of me a publication of the Parasitenkunde (know- 
ledge of parasites) vol I 1869,wrich was mailed to me to make an 
add for a local medicinal publication. Opportunity !! 
Next lie the Vienna dissertation about the Botrvchium of Milde 
from our languishing academy. With it a page of the Garden Chro - 
9 10 MISSOURI 
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