Ree, Aug. 4 

 Ans. Aug. 9 



Dyck July 9,tP48 



Your Wellborn 



Finally I can anounce the arrival of your shipmentt. It seems 

 to have arrived at Bremen on the 15th of June, and to have shipped 

 on the 20th by way of Minden to Dusseldorf. I recelved it only orr the 

 July 1, and I can n o w report to Your Wellborn about the conditiorr of 

 it.. As to expenses, they have been charged to ne in Brenair on the 

 12th t costing me 13 Thaler 20 Groschen; this, then, is not extremely 

 expensive, a^d the path followed could be continued. About the way 

 the plants were packed, quite a bit can be said. Generally, they lie 

 much to tightly layered on top of each ot^er; t^ere should be riore 

 in-between- space; a number of air-holes should have been drilled into 

 to case, and a few cross pieces nailed' ttfansversely would have p^e- 

 vented the pressure of the Upper weight on the lower layer^s:« Horse- 

 hair, bv the way, is a good packing material. 



As to the plants thenselvea, I shall in this writing follow the 

 sequence of your index. First is Main . calcarata (olim sulcata ) in 

 qv.it e good conditiorr and could be planted right away in a not. ~ 

 Man , m.inipara in contrast, was with exception of one he ad, which I 

 hope to save, totally dry«. and without life. By the way, I consider 

 this identical with my vivipara ; perhaps with your plant only the 

 spine bundles' are covered with a little more wool. - Man. aprlar>ata 

 are in good shape. This species could be rerhans the sane as the one 

 I naned M. glabrata (reeeived fron England and unf ortunately lost)., 

 I will examine it no^e carefully. - M. sinilis was dead t But , as I 

 own a snall plant of this Speeles, I could convince nvself t .that it 

 is the correct one. What, however, is now M, Simplex Nutt. ? £ch. 

 Lindheineri , of 3 specinens two were thoroughly rotten, and only 

 one pernits sone hope of stayi ng alive. These 3 specinens nust have 

 been packed much longer than the others, be cause they were (with 



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