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The sulphur - yellow in growing flower has long scarlet-red filaments. 



The shrub endures the dryness just as well as " chilopsis linearis" the "blooming 

 willow" with lilac-colored flowers, both wild on the Rio Grande and grown here 

 in the garden, The name " Chilopsis linearis " was #iven to me by Lindheimer; I 

 surmise the plant is also described in Ernory's B # Surv. and it has acquired the 

 name "blooming willow" unlawfully by the German gardeners. 



My Communications are somewhat wildly confused, However since I am only 

 an amateur and collector and not a scientific botanist, it may perhaps help to 

 gather together all sorts of remarks, which the botanist can view, orgsnize and 

 work out scientifically f even though there is much in them not useful and long 

 since well known. And now, after our old friend and here the only scientific 

 collector botanist Lindheimer regretfully has died, I also encourage other 

 people to collect newer and less known plant s, but of course these people unlike 

 Lindheimer, who collected because of love for science, but go out only in the 

 hope of earthly gain. And so the same Krauskopf, from whom you probably received 

 a circular about the ' Hesper Aloe , again was on the upper Nuesces and this time 

 brought along a whole wagon füll of Hesperaloe and many other plant s. I wrote 

 the printed circular for him and sent it to all botanical gardens of the world 

 in order to make known your treatise in the appendix to Watson's Flora of Utah 

 and Nevada page ^97» and the scattered essays in other books about Hesperaloe , 

 N ow that he has come down from his excessive price of 10 per plant, he has, 

 as he says received Orders for about 3,000 plants and obtained 1500 on one trip. 

 So they cannot be very scarce on the Nüecesl 



Please call my attention repeatedly to plant-forms which grow here or 

 should occur here, and of which you would like to know more or would like to 

 have specimens. Of course my memory, because of age, is somewhat short and my 

 time limited through "the struggle for existence". Nevertheless, from it so 

 much must be put aside so that, if only in the smallest measure, something can 

 be done for science. 



I must finally close otherwise, 1 will e v tend this writing beyond bearing 

 and take up too much of your valuable time. 



Respectfully, 



John 0„ Meusebach 



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