ffegelmaier 



Oct. . 10,186? 



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Prora Karsten 1 s work I have communicated the most necessary,. 

 It does not deal at all with the forms but with the growing of the 

 plant s, and the W. columbiana is there only illustrated incldentally 

 as a paradigm, and in a note below the margin (i.e. ,f a footnote" 

 E.D.) (as recently remarked) entirely wrong diagnosed for W. co- 

 lumbiana , arrhiza and brasiliensis « 



II f orgot recently to enclose a sample of L» Hegelmaleri ; which: 

 name has been used only in letters. As you will see, it belongs 



and seeds are somewhat short,but there are also considerably Ion - 

 ger onesvand, in this regard, I find also in the north-american 

 forms ffreat dif f erences*. You are intirely correct, that the sculp- 

 ture of the septa is signlf icantly different frora the multlffistata ; 

 yes, I add, that also a d^jsection of it shows considerable diffe- 

 rences.and that also in that regard the ones of Karsten and the 

 north-araeri.ean pä$CL c °stata on the one side and the multlcostata 

 stand decidedly opposite each other. Under present day systematic 

 ideas one can in this case, as is done so frequently,accept species 

 almost as well as subspecies.. My own experience is, that through 

 examination of multiple forms as a rule the disposition is to com- 

 bine, and if others come out in reverse.they have in the end sub- 

 jectis constantis (? E.D.) many parts. Objectively, neither of the 

 two is right; and Natur e will not permit to be squeezed into our 

 schemes. 



The Lemrtae in süirits, of which 1 - you write again this time,. 

 have not yet arrived, and I look forward to thera with immense joy;. 



into the form category of the perpusilla c 

 that, to use my terminologyv to i J^affiiffi 



emptiori , , and 



The fruit 



