Gattinger, A. 

 1882, April 2nd 

 Nashville 



TRANSLATION 



Nashville, April 2, 1882 



Dear Doctor, 



Many thanks for your treatise which I read with great interest. I always 

 look at these peculiar plants with sorae amazement and was never satisfied to see 

 them put with the Lycopodium since I cannot hut believe that they are just as 

 close to Pilularia as to Lycopodium. I shall go to Lavergne this week to look 

 around for several things and to bring home some Isoetes. Up to now I have 

 collected the only Butlerie, even though I saw another one in a swamp in Ducktown 

 but could not reach it. There probably will be some more in Tennessee, and also 

 Morsilie (k) & Azalla and I shall look for them. I believe I have a specimen of 

 I . But ler i with three protuberances, but am not quite sure. I don't know where to 

 spend the little time I have this summer, whether I should go again to the mountains 

 of East Tennessee or to the southern part of Middle Tennessee, the Valley of Duckriver 

 and West Tennessee? I don't care too much to collect duplicates for exchange, but to 

 collect things which may not be new, but which I have never collected in Tennessee. 



... If you want something collected, please let me know. What do you believe 

 would be the most advisable things to collect? 



Yours respectfully, 

 A. Gattinger 



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