R. Caspary 
Feb. 11, 1877 
forms with Muphar pumilum a very sterile bastard,. 
N'ow a request^.For my recreation, , which I too must have, I 
undertake each year several excursions in the Fall into the local^ 
province, which is mostly terra virginica- and move x^ith my oim boat,, 
2 men and wagon for the boat and horse from lake to lake; I nysel^^ 
am. of course, on foot, Last Fall I examined in 3| weeks more than 
70 lakes. This gives me very inte->-esting contributions for the dis- 
tribution of the Nymphaeaceae, In this I arrange constantly and sys- 
tematically for phytographic demands and important publications.. I 
do not collect sites, but every quarter mile all plants.which I find, 
and also all plants,which I find in the lakes which are critical or 
unknown I take along,. The mosses I send to Mr.Schimper to Strassburg; 
He T^ites to me today, that I ^had found 2 of great interest, and these 
point again to northamericans; • Thi s is Conomytrium- inlianum^, very rare 
in Europa, and has never been found in a lake.except in North America 
and the Southern States; and secondr.an entirely new Fontinatis pf a'^ 
type of the northamerican' Fontinatis di sticha. . Now the request :: 
Please get me 1) Conomytrium inlianum- from South American swamps, . 
and 2)Fontinatis dis Sullivan is probably dead ?^ I' know of 
nobody in NAM" who collects them,. 
Hearty greetings from my wife.xsrho invites you to come to us II 
Best srreetings to your wife and Georg-. Your s-reatest admirer, Your 
R. Caspary 
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