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did not permit him to definitely disentangle this question. Therefore my request: would you please send us one 

 or two chosen samples from that location. 



For the moment those are the limits of our desires. If you would like to and want to satisfy our wishes, please do 

 not wait for a spécial occasion to make your dispatch. Use without embarrassment the mail service using 

 cardboard that is sufficiently thick to place the samples safe from the dangers of breaking or being crushed. 



In exchange I will be happy to offer you the four French species ( 4 out of 7) that Mr.Durieau and I collected 

 last year. Among which are two new species that Mr.Durieau gave the name of Echinospora et Boryand. They 

 are at your disposition, but you have to tell me the route by which I should send them. Are there some safe ones 

 under the présent conditions that Missuori finds itself? 



At the time when this letter is already folded, I received one from M. Durieu that reviews the Isoetes from Lake 

 Winnepeseagse (?), because he saw them in Braun's herbarium, sent by you. He has just informed me that 

 Mr.Braun told him that he has doubts on the subject of this plant, which could be neither of the species until 

 now described in the United States of America. But the material is reduced to three samples, only one good one. 

 This is not sufficient to conclude this question. In regards to your zeal for the Isoetes! it would be a plant that 

 could be collected abundantly next summer, better at the end of August than at the beginning, if one wants to 

 have it bearing fruit well. 



In your letter to Mr. Durand, you thought that germination of the Isoetes is as yet unknown. This is wrong. On 

 this subject there is a nice Memoir of Hofmeister, with plates already ten years old. I have them and reviewed 

 them recently but I am unable to find them at this moment. I would really have liked to give you its name and 

 its date. As much as I can remember, the germination of the Isoetes lacustris, is according to Hofmeister' s 

 observations, very similar to the Lycopodes. 



J.G. 



