Ree. Frankfurt Nov. 13 
Ans. Dec. ? 
Poppelsdorf Nov. 9,1857. 
My dear Friend I 
Best thanks for your letter and the news about NUphar ' 
and Nelumbo luteunr' ; but it is Tcrong. that you do not x^ite even 
a Single word about your health and your family, or about your 
Plans, though I would like naturally to know somethin^, or. rather 
a lot about you«. It is very kind of you. and I acknowledge mjr'thanks,, 
that you have written to America in order to obtain inforraation- 
about the two Nymphaeas. Of course, the de Script ion of the Nelumbor 
is somewhat incomplete, as you say. One can not see. how the shor- 
ter.thick internodes differ frora the other. 6«» long ones.which. ac- 
cording to the sket)/ch are themselves 6 long.. I assurae. . that the 
shorter internodes do not ref er- at all to the thick" . flour- 
rich.which could very well be woody.meaning. that they have very/ 
Woody cross cuts and flour-rich parenchyma.but rather the 2 short" 
internodes between each od two long ones. Nelumbium- shows themr: 
(see drawins^ on page 2 of letter ) 
Gr long internodiunn at most finger-thick in greenhouse. , but to 1^ 
feet long- 
and K^» Two short internodia 
F f irst leaf, turned downward 
ir second leaf. under | divergence. turned upward. 
Iir Third leaf, foliage leaf . positioned in^n unheard of way without 
exemple.as far as I know.meaning Braun, with 1/1 divergence with 
leaf 2,though both stand in the middle of the stem 
s- stipule to foliage-leaf 
a branch in- axill 
In the axis of leaf III Stands the flower 
