Hegelmai er 



Tübingen Nov. 12, 186? 



Möst Honored Sir Doctor t 



My two letters of the previous month will have , as IT hope„ 



come to jo\x; and also the brochure sent byvpostal wrapper.E quairy 



r hope,, that you will' excuse my somewhat difficult to explairr tardi- 



ness of the past summer,. 



As to my essay, it would interest me rauch, if you think,, that 



I have looked at your newer shipments ( heteropoda and microcarpaT 



bring t|ia r £haos of seen forms 

 correctlyv; II at least made an ef f ort to Jk&lskxacfcxfeteKXKkacKXxto the best 



of my knowledge and ability , into this scheme; should I have lumped3 too 



much^and specialized too little, you may want to correct this through 



an adaptatiorr f rom your viewpoint*.. I, in my part f , will have to- deli- 



ver a postscript 4 some dayynot onlyvbecause I could not use your lastr 



comirrunications r any more, but the printer* made the matter much tooo r 



lazy ,by ignoring? all kinds of insertions, which I made basedjorra sin- 



cere source during proof-reading, and, consequentljr they are now mis- 



sing.. 



Yöur last sent mixture of Wolf fia from Illinois, I finally did /j 

 examine now; one can really distinguish the two species to a major 

 part under the magnifying glass, after they have been softened- suffi- 

 ciently. W. columbiana does not differ in anything from ' specimens frourr 

 other localities^. Interesting was for me, fctoacfc to find several : speci- 

 mens, which with all caref ullness showed only one Stoma. M ost fre- 

 quently I found this with group 3>The other I find ( brasiliensis) } 

 also agreeing with- the one from Detroit; specially in .regard to the 

 small ( considerably smaller than with our arrhiza ) stomata».The pig- 

 mentatiorr is, as far as intensity is concerned, very dif f erent 1 , , with 

 some specimens very intensive, as intensive as with the specimens 

 Weddelli orisrinals, with others|nuch more delicate.so that I believe, 

 it never will be misslng. Yöu seem to put little weight on this point, 

 and write of individuals totally lacking pisrraentatiorr, which I could 



