Buchenau, Dr. Fr. 
1866, August 11th 
Bremen, Germany 
TRANSLATION 
Dear Doctor: 
With the steamer "Amerika" which is leaving here tomorrow, I shall send you 
a large package of dried plants via the Smithsonian Institution, which, hopefully 
will send it on to you soon. The package contains plants from Prof. Alex. Braun 
who sent them to me to forward them to you, and furthermore a number of Convolvulaceae 
plants from me, Juncaceae, Najadaceae and Alismaceae. Some very beautiful plants are 
among them and I hope you may find many of interest to you. 
My interest has become much greater through your shipment of North American 
Juncaceae. Your determination partly differs very much from the previous 
conceptions; this is especially true with regard to the difficult species with 
knotty articulated leaves. I am very curious about your division of J. pallescens lam. 
Please send the separate of this work which you were kind enough to promise me. I am 
anxious to learn whether you also paid attention to the shape of the seed coat, i.e. 
less with regard to the presence or absence of a white small appendage as to the 
structure proper of the brown pod. I find that this has very pretty characteristics 
but the herbarium specimens are not very useful in this respect because unripe 
seeds are of no use. 
If I asked your opinion with regard to plants, please let me know your 
opinion, also with regard to the Mexican plants which I, as Alex. Braun asked me 
to, took out of my reserves. 
Of other plants I especially would like to know: 
Narthecium americanum 
all Luzula species 
Juncus setaceys -- Rosth. 
J. maritimusL.(Roemerianus Scheele?) 
J. stygius 
Potamogeton Tuckermanni 
pauciflorus 
niagarensis 
compressus 
praelongus 
lucens 
heterophyllus 
Alisma Plantago 
Echinodorus radicans 
Sagittaria falcata Pursh. 
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