Gattinger» A. 

 1881, February l8th 

 Nashville, Tenn. 



TRANSLATION 



Nashville, Tenn- February l8th, l88l 



Dear Doctor, 



I was glad to heftr that you made such an extensive trip with which your vast 

 knowledge of plants will bring good results. Mr. Kellerman (probably 

 Letterraan, Tr.) wrote me last year that your health was not the best and I was 

 surprised to hear from Ganby that you had just returned with Sargent from Cali- 

 fornia. I myself spent most of the tirae in bed with a disgusting rheumatism and 

 also an eye infection of which still remains a blur in my right eye. I believe 

 I wrote you that the few plants I sent you certainly put you under no Obligation 

 to me. Eragrostis, is of course, pectinacea as I found later.... 



... I have only a few specimens of Aruna. Tecta (?) from Dismal Swamp in 

 Virginia. Sterile specimens of the local A. macrosperma of Nashville, Lookout 

 Mountain in East Tennessee have exactly the same foliage as the. Dismal Swamp 

 specimens. 



I believe Ar. tecta is only a new variety of A. macrosperma from the northern 

 boundary of your area. 



My Silene Cantirrh. C. is a beautiful mistake. Just wrote it down— It is 

 very hard to find Viti with fruits since the high water only too often covers 

 the bush entirely after the flowering time. 



Shall collect Q. alba-Mühlb. Nobody seems to have seen the species ericoides. 

 I have sent it to Curtiss among the genus Tennessianis nov. sp. Your Lemna 

 perpusilla has a paler and thinner leaf than mine. But mine is somewhat oblique 

 and also somewhat lenticular. I don't know where to put it, cannot find any 

 family. 



I have spent much effort last year to find your Planera, but was not successful. 

 Because of the Areuthobium minutum I have studied many things, but could not find it. 

 I frankly don't know the plant at all. 



I compare always all my Juncus with yours and determine them accordingly. 1 

 find it hard to determine some species if I don't have new, complete specimens. 



I hope to collect some fresh types within the next weeks and hope to make up 

 for a boring winter. 



Yours obediently, 

 A. Gat tinger. 



