Gat tinger, A. 

 1880. April 20th 

 Nashville 



TRANSLATION 



Nashville, April 20, 1880 



Dear Doctor, 



Last Saturday I received your monograph on Pinus which you kindly sent me. 

 I am very happy to see you untangle one of the hard knots in the mixed-up systematics. 

 I can look at these questions only from a distance since the material available to 

 me is rather meager, and literary works are almost entirely missing. Of course, I 

 still collect as much as possible and hope to have enough this year to send to ray 

 botanical friends. Enclosed you will find a Panicum which I brought home last 

 Friday from Hoopah Hills (siliceous group). I don't know whether it is a younger 

 form of P. dichotomum ? Shall collect it in various stages. 



Tomorrow to Lavergnel (1? railes) to ^eavenworthia stylosa and Phlox Stellaria. 

 I hope to be able to send you some plants within a few weeks. 



Your obedient 

 A. Gattinger 



