René Lenormand 



Rec. Paris July 12 Ans. July 14 



Vire July 10, I8J7 



Dear Sir, 



I cannot express the agréable surprise that I had in receiving, yesterday, the kind and 

 helpful letter that you had the goodness of sending me. What can I do on my side to 

 pave the remainder of the road, that séparâtes us, to have the pleasure of making your 

 Personal acquaintance.! However, unsurmountable obstacles remain and I must accept 

 the satisfaction to communicate with you with a pen not being able to do it in-vivo. 



I was awaiting to receive news from you and attribute your silence to the many médical 

 occupations that you talked to me about, in your last letter. Thank God you have decided 

 to dedicate yourself completely to botany, and I am enchanted to see that you are doing it 

 with more fervor than ever. Your work an Cacti should be of great interest. That family 

 does not shine in my herbarium, as it is absent. The difficultés to collect and to conserve 

 that plant, in spite of its extrême beauty, makes it absent in the packages that corne from 

 abroad. At least that is what has happened to me. 



I don't even have those that you like so dearly, the Cuscutae, on which you have 

 already described so many new aspects. Since I sent you those that I had, ten years 

 ago, I have received several new ones that I will be delighted to share with you, if you do 

 not have them. Following are their names and where they are from, so that you can see if 

 they could be of interest to you. 



Cuscuta elegans sp. nova Boiss and Bent, from Asia Minor 



Cuscuta Balansee sp. nova Boiss and ? from Asia Minor. 



Cuscuta subulata binco from Sicily. 



Cuscuta alba dresl. from Sicily. 



Cuscuta Babylonia Aucher from Asia Minor. 



Cuscuta Palaestina Boiss from Asia Minor. 



Cuscuta trifolii Babingt. sent from England by him. 



Cuscuta approxïmata Babingt. This scolar sent it to me from England to which 

 this species was brought with the seeds of Medicago sativa, coming from 

 Afghanistan. 



Cuscuta monogyna Vahl from Syria. 

 Cuscuta aurantiaca sequiem from Corsica.. 

 Cuscuta sehkuhriana Pfeiff from Bohemia. 

 Cuscuta stylosa Chois from Mexico. 



Cuscuta verrucosa Sweet from the Botanical Garden in Ghent where it is a 

 parasite of the Narium-Oleander. 



Cuscuta soligonosia Engelmanni ( C. Cefatiana Bertot) from Verneil and Piémont. 

 Cuscuta acutissima Buchinger from Abyssinia. 



Finally a Cuscuta without name, parasite of the Daphne alpina, collected in 

 Greece by Dr. Helreich. 



