A. Grisebach, A. 

 l8*f6, October 20th 

 Göttingen, Germany 



TRANSLATION 



Göttingen, 20th October 1846. 



Dear Colleague, 



Your kind letter of September 5th is already in my hands and made me think 

 immediately what I can do to be of Service to you. There are only 200 species 

 which I am sending you, but I hope you will be satisfied, since more than half 

 of them came from Turkey and Greece and the rest from southern Hungary and 

 Scandinavia. I would have sent you something earlier, but I did not have enough 

 plants which you would like to have since during the last years I only botanized 

 in the North German area and Norway. Since I hope and wish to keep up our 

 exchange for a long time, I will try my best to find things for you if you would 

 let me know which floras are of interest to you: oriental plants are still 

 rare and expensive. With regard to your wish to receive Cuscuta, I am sending 

 you parts of an oriental species which I own. What I described as G. planiflora 

 in Spicilegium Rumelicae is probably not the real species and I ask you to help 

 me decide in which group it belongs. Of Cuscuta hassiaca which I saw one Fall 

 in the vicinity of Göttingen, I am enclosing a good specimen. 



From the beautiful North American plants which thanks to you are in my 

 collection and to which I can add another large package through your kindness 

 in which connection I wrote to your brother, I am still lacking specimens of 

 woody plants and should ask you to send me some in the future. But everything 

 you send me is valuable to me. 



Assuring you of my devotion, my true recognition of your friendship and 

 knowing that I am in your debt, I ask you to continue to be well disposed 

 towards me. 



Sincerely yours, 



A. Grisebach 

 Professor 



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