Hegelmaier 



June 22,1869 



the prior tests will be ended in not too distant time with the 

 tearing away of the island. - I am well aquainted with the name and 

 residence of your north-american nestor of bryology^ and this is in 

 everybody 1 s mouth 1 ; I thought, that, may^be, soraewhat younger genera^ 

 tions would be found, to which belongs^also according to 



your news, Mr. Bölander. . 



Simultaneously with your letter I' received one frora Rio de 

 Janeiro with mucft mixed Asolla , a Wolf fia , which is very interesting^ 

 to me, because I cannot, despite all efforts, distinguish it fronr 

 our W. arrhlza . It has not a trace of pigraentation. 



M ay T further ask you 1 , to teil* prof. Braun ,besides a recom- 

 mendation for me, - I shall write to him myself quite soon -,that 

 Mr. A.Ernst in Caracas sent a letter with some of Wolf fia Welwit - 

 schii , which he found there new,and which willl hopef ully ; spread from 

 there. . 



The news is, that he will'; send to me in the next weeks in ar 

 case a bottle with this plant in spirits to the Berlin botanical 

 Garden. This news is very glad for rae. I had mailed a little sample 

 of the plant to Ernst, as it had been collected already earlier irr 

 that area. 



Fjpr today I greet you heartily, Your 



F. Hegelmai er 



T^bins-en June 22,1869 



(translated from German Script by E. Denison, March 1989) 



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