Grisebach, A. 

 1850, December lOth 

 Göttingen, Germany 



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Göttingen, lOth December I85O 



Dear Friend, 



I have not written you for a long time since I hoped to have a plant collection 

 ready for you at the same time. Late this summer, I made a trip through the Pyrenees 

 and collected rare species in large parts of the mountains: should you like to have 

 these together with some oriental plants, I ask you to write a letter informing me 

 to which shipping agent in Bremen I should send this package. - May be in the meantime 

 you also have found more plants which would be a welcome addition to my herbarium. 



I thank you for your Information regarding the report of Wislizenus' trip which 

 I shall raention in my Annual Report. Do you have the latter? and up to which year? I 

 can enclose a copy in the shipment for you. Also my best thanks for the fruit of the 

 beautiful Gentiana Wislizenii . I received the last very large shipment from you in 

 the year of I8V7. This to let you know in case letters or shipments might have been 

 lost. I have not sent you anything since that time.— At that time you asked me whether 

 the government is buying things for the local institutions: for the herbarium nothing 

 has been done up to now and also the Garden which rieh and large has no funds for 

 any ext ras. 



My cousin Seidensticher who started our botanical contact has at present a 

 permanent position with the Navy in Bremerhafen. 



The political Situation in Germany has now reached a point that science and the 

 book publishers raay recover: the danger of a war with England has passed for some 

 time. 



Sincerely, 



A. Grisebach 

 Professor 



Anything concerning literary works in America which I could mention in my Annual 

 Report will always be welcome. 



Sonder mentions in his flora of Hamburg which was just published that Cuscuta 

 Trifoli. . . .is C. epithymum , but that C. epithumum is not found here. Is that correct 

 It is my opinion that I have C. epithumum as well as Trifoli from northern Germany. 



Do you have C. urceolata Kz. from Spain? Perhaps I could give you a speeimen. 



