Chas A. Geyer 

 1842, September 2nd 



Dr. Emgelbach's Farm 



TRANSLATION 



Dr. Engelbach 's Farm near Ahrensville, 

 September 2nd, 1842 



My dear Doctor, 



Your correspondence begins to limpi You still owe me an answer to my last 

 letter i -The heat here was terrible for the last 8 days and there appeared several 

 of fever, but I am sure that also in St. Louis it is not »distressingly healthy"; 

 but I am in good health and well and doing a lot of things. I shall now go over 

 your last letter and see what I can say about itl Your helianthus occidentalis alias 

 plantagiverus (?) is probably my decapitatus-Anemone cylindrica Gray? Is this perhaps 

 a species which can easily be taken for A. virginiana ? It is unknown to me -Hedyotes 

 stenophylla , with stiff and pointed leave S ?-If it looks like that one can find it here 

 frequently on meager sandy hillsJ-I have seen the living Uniola stricta-Diplopapp . 

 linariaefolis I don't know at all, Desm. canadense I have seen south of the St. Peter 

 River— Stellera.... frequently in swamps at the Illinois River— my Arisraa (?) 

 sagittaria I found again in dried up swamps. I am now angry about the Verbena and don't 

 know my way out. I have several very interesting speeimens of a bastard between 

 aigeron divaricatHS &.E. canadensifi, . . I also have Solida, Aster, Helianthus, Desmodium 

 & Cuscuta. Since I don't know whether you reeeived my last letter, I want to repeat 

 the plants and especially the plants which I have in sets of 60 speeimens: 



In my last letter I also asked your opiniön whether I should spend the winter 



