Hegelmaier 



Oct. 3tl86? 



americans of Dr. Begliser are mostly sterile forms of minor , 

 and believe, I would change my view only then,if such forms, whiclr 

 you consider as dif f erent ,would be found sometime in fruit, and, then 

 if indäed ! it was found, that they do not belong here; L. minor 

 exists with us and in other places in most dif f erent sizes and most 

 different habitus, the differences being enormous.and yet belongs 

 better together, if one passes through the innumerous forms, I am 

 convinced. L, gibba is found at times with flat frondibus underneatlt- 



1 send you such a small sample« But, permits to be distinguished easi- 

 ly fronr'L. minor when sterile, once one is aquainted with it. Gene- 

 rally Pci'b'ba an d trisulca do not vary as much habitually as minor , 

 Gibba I have from you from America in 3 specimens, l) from Arizona 

 (Cones Sc Palmer N.425))2) Frundor ( Herb. A. Gray) and 3) 



New Granada ( the spanish province, now Central America, E.D.) 



(Holten 71^+; this is the strongest form I have ever seen)i. 



The most interesting however are the little Wolf f ias , speciall'yr 



the remark that Wolf f ia Delilea ( which, according to present usus 



different 



is to be named W. l^yoAtvdGL^ ) something toto oreloj from W. arrhiza , 

 as you will see from the small enclosure; Kurz , as one can see in rea- 

 ding his article, has not even read the, despite all that xtfindlrness, 

 exact description of Schleicher or looked at the specimens keeping 1 

 und er stfl$fi bly quiet. However, one can not spread out (verbat im: 

 beat flat, E.D.) every minute detail nor nonsense in a Journal ar- 

 ticle of one f s own, or I would have done so long ago.. - 



Our arrhiza is in its care a special form, specially in its 

 size, a quite variable it&my even though there can be no doubt about 

 the unity of the species* I have a specimen from the Normandy (and 



2 in spirits) , wbere there cannot be any doubt about the accuracy of 

 measurements with 1*5* mm long (bitten in former German as 1,5*™) 





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