Jacobi 



Sept. 23t. 1871 



ments, but have e^tirely differenti Inf lorescences.. The wise oneff 

 are not at all in accord: about the desi.srnation of the floral ar- 

 rangementt . because many flower forms are call edr' n ear-shaped 11 

 ( i.e the ear wheat oats, E.D.),which are thus only when 

 looke^ at frora the outside f thoujrh f undameutally are nore or less 

 develooed paricles; for if the node does carry a very sraall 1 , 

 flatte^ed per! i.oel on which the fruit-knot is seated, so is this accor- 

 ding to ny view a panicle, the more so, when the leaf-ancrle ( alias 

 leaf- Joint, E.D. erconpasses more than one flower).. 



Here you have some indications about ny observations in this field 

 with the request to off er your remarks about theo,. 



The news about J A« scab ra_ are very interesting to ne, specially in 

 regard to plant geographyii In that area I received valuable informa - 

 tion from the plant grower Karl Besserer^ about the plants oollected' 

 by hin and and introduced into our Wardens,. Did I nail you the nura- 

 bers of the Garden News by Koch, in which aoueared the de scription of 

 the plant, which Besserer introduced several years ago with us...My 

 _A -scabra is now truly a magnificent specinen- of 0.30 n dm and 0.37 

 n heifhth, and did I say, that it would flower soon. Prince Saln did 

 once receive A. sc abra f r»om you. The only soeo inen, which still exists 

 cones fron ny plant. By the way. I also ^eceived a _A. scabra fron the 

 Munich Garden, which , however, had sonewhat longer and less rhombic 

 leaves. This one unf ortunately p^rished., 



With the sane shipnent I received also n y A . a s perri na a. s sp.e 

 Talm i t fron Lindheiner. . Do you not kuow, where this Talnit can be 

 looked for.. 



The A.Parryi , growr from your seed, are growing well, but are 

 still too small, to perrait seei^p* their stränge character. Bouche 7 

 did received the seed of A. Palneri , and orie half dozen seeds have p*e"^- 

 minatedd, but the plantlets are still very snall.. If you could send 



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