Ree, March 29 Ttfbiraen, March 6,1876 



Ans. P.C. Aprill6 f Letter May 21 



Möst honored Fr 



You have done for me already so many kindnesses, that I should 

 hardly dare, to approach you with another question or request for 

 your kindness,,Do you have perhaps entirely ripe, with possibly irr 

 fo</ l\^}9^^P} a ^y. . . dissolving fruit s of Erigenia bulbosa in your herba- 

 rium ? If th s is the case, may I ask you,to send me a few ( 2 or 3) 

 of such fruits ? 



I 7 ara working on a comparative embryological investigation of 

 the kinds of development of pseudo-monocotyledorr sprouts of our 



* Carum Bulbrichteum (???? E. D. ) , bringing several other Umbell lf erae 

 into comparison,and thus carae to the above-named plant. I have of 

 this speeimens from the area of St. Louis, with fruits, which, which are 

 excellently developed for the recognition of the systematic charac- 

 ters,.but are not ripe enough for my present purposes. . Embryos of 

 Umbellatae reach theil? development in part, as it seems, unbelie- 

 vably late, only in the overripe fruit, where the endosperms form" 

 already an ovopartes (?? E.D. ) and firm tissue.. If you should not 

 possess fruits, which fulfill' the above conditions concerning the 

 Status of maturity, I ask you, not to send them to me, 



I hope, to let you hear from me in the not too distant fu- 



XOC ture.Your f^Tf.^^k did grow on well' and the ftVP$?&S are not ^ 



f orgottem These and much els^will get attention in due order. Bo- 



tany is now, more than ever, , a matter proven to a major part, and is 



being studied by work processes boring and very unif ormv,though of- 



fering to the person applying himself constantly something new.. 

 which^ I sent to your Georg' 

 The little/of dissertation>, which appeared hergsince his return:,, 



is, in fact, all, that has come to the light since..The request for 



doctor diploraas has thus been weak 1 during the last years; But I did 



