Ree, . March ? 
Koniprsberp: in Prussia 
Feb. 10,1866 
Uear Friend ! 
Your letter of January 6, '66 I received in due time,and you 
did without doubt get mine of Decenber 22,1865 with the Juncus 
Speeles, which you desired to get aquainted with more accurate - 
ly from Meyer* s herbariiim,- I wrote you then, that Nymphaea odora^ 
ta wlth shaggy hairyness of the leaf-stem> is unknown to me- That is 
incorrect..! recently described" for Miquel*s Ann. Ingr. Bot. the K:m^ 
phaea odorata accordin^ to the herb.En^r. Bot., and looked at that 
occasion through all ray notes^, and find, that^ I examined on' April 
10,185fr in the Be:^lin Botanical Garden' on living specimens the hair 
at that tinie;they go unrier the nanes N. ver sicolor^ , . di scolor , pygmaea , , 
but all is F. odorata , being more or less colo^^ed on the under side of 
the leaf vernili^on (??? E.D.) and, Fiore or less with from 2-10 cel- 
led, cylindrical hair UDon the leaf-stem. I also saw in the same year 
in herb. J.Gay (coi;ld be Say, E.D.) leaves x^ith lonpr-haired stems,, 
and from the specimens of the Nymphaea odorata »TA^hich I have here 
from most of the europaean herbaria,! find several (h. Ingr. Bot' - 
Ch. Wrip:ht & Tiens - h. sondexSchlottmann.Tra. . h. Louis;ann: 
Ded. A.Gray, etc.) with partly highly shaggy stems -disposition- foi" 
hair as round cells between long ones in every stem of N:/mphaea^ odo - 
rata but mostly they develop little or hardly in fresh youthr and dis- 
appear later«. I exam.ined now in' Miquel*s Ann. Engr. Bot • . 2 forms of 
N. odorata 1) rtabrapetiolo folio adulti glabro and IT) villosa, petio- 
lotolii^plus minus in partesuperiori villoso, Through lesser , thinner 
pubescense to di sappearance of hair, the latter transce>^ds into the 
f irst,. In Wilderer* s herb.. & in h. Berlin. = are leaves, which show 
on top hardly any hair on the stem«. One musjb' be on pruard to not mis- 
take algae for hair. As pro6f' one makes several cuts of the epider- 
