Ee^elmaier April ?, 186? 3 



I had gathered" 1 during a several days journey last summer in the 

 Palatinat, of which 6^ permitted germination v and development of seeds.. 

 I have only flowers available.. 



L, minor I know in fruit only from New Holland specimens,, which 

 I r received for examination v , in flower one finds her very rarely, but 

 Single, if one looks carefully through an assortnent piece by piece* 

 I do not have her preserved, as up to now I inserted such fruit s in al- 

 cohol to prepare them for examination. 



IT shal undertake at whituntide a trip of several days to the 

 Rhein Valley, exclusi'toely to search for seeds, becafee here^irrthis hilly 

 and water-poor terraiir,it is very poorly represented., If I am lucky, I 

 will get minor and trisulca florens and gibba sterile. I will! preserve 

 this time, which I 1 normally have not done,and shall send you, whatever- 

 I get myself.I do not dare to hope for f lowe ring gibba. . 



Cbncerning the american Lemnae (verbatim German = M water-lenses H ) 

 I unf ortunately raade some remarks in my last lettei% about who f se wrong*- 

 ness I have convinced myself through present , caref ul 1 examinations; I 

 had made the earlier examination' somewhat hurridly with exceptiorr of 

 the striking and interesting L. Torreyi » The result of this was, that 

 I T threw together the perpusilla (bcra) iwith minor- , which was the more 

 irresponsible,as she looks rather different, so that I now dare to dis- 

 tinguish her sterile from minor easilyy,and because I knew her already 

 and had examined her under a name which had come to me in a letter fronF 

 Karsten- - . . M r r. Austin is entirely correct-,to describe the one-nerved' 

 little plantlet (New Jersey, Arizona, & Missouri etc) as a new species*: 

 L, Torrevi - which name must remain - That this plantlet is not L. per- 

 pusilla Torr, does not ptrove the description of Torrey,with which not 

 much can be accomplished",, but the origonal specimen of Torrey, of which" 

 A. had the kindness to provide me with a proof ,and which ori^inated from 



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