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asree remarkably.. (Keel-cells,lack of crystals,moderately thi~ 



ckend lasts, the base of the cells in question, etc) What may you say 



to this combining 7°I do not know, if and how far the flora of Ca - 



lifornia and of Chile show analogies, equally, if forms ,which be - 



long here, exist in the countries lying between them on the West - 



coast of the Americas. 



As I see from your lettenyou consider certain forms as belon- 



ging t o . stadial i s, whi ch x?e in Europe consider as broader fruited forms 

 yerna t 



of on account of the J oO wing) } Sorae such forms do 



indeed form a considerable connecting link in the swedish monograph,, 



Sonnroth considered them proper species' and named f/, polymorpha. . How- 



ever, if one considers the presence of the wing-like keel 1 of Cf (. stag- 



nalis. as the main criterion, one can, as I find, reso Ive the separa- 

 verna 



tion of C t vm and stagnalis j anyhow, as this seems practically desi- 

 rable by the wide distancebetween the specially wide-winged east Indian- 

 er stagnalls( s.Wlghtlana Wall) and our Cflminima Hoppe ! According to 



the named method, „ which is my basis.the forms in question' can still* 

 ■ once 



belong to C» verna , kt there exists a wing, its length varies extraor- 

 dinarilyydepending on the raore or minor stretching of the related cells. 

 A recently examined very curious av^UvOQailf f orm from the Island Angt 

 lesea showed this to me most distinctly; the wings of it have a quite 

 enormous width,and yet, nobody williget the idea, to dif f erjitiate it 

 <f TomrrtfL May-be with the above method the contradiction li+if muim 1l1'ui,l£1iijl 

 *taSK»xbetween your and mine results will be explained considering 

 7P • I find this globular or subglobose with C. stagnatlsr. elllptlte 

 for C, verna > May-be you used for this examinatiorr as C. stagnalis the 

 broad- fruited verna form ? 



Finally still' a main point 4 in the grouping. The lack of bracte- 

 olae for the terrestrial gallitrlche , which you specifically have ofterr 



