Ree. July 7 (( hardly possible,E.D. ) Eeisswasser in Bohemia- 

 Ans. Aug 1 June 22 1875 



Most Honored Gentleman ! 



Your shipment and letter arrived here June 19 and were deli- 



vered by the post on the 20th. That I did not annouce the arrivaU 



immediately/ was caused, because I threw myself right awayv uponr some 



of the needles c , to be able to write to you, but, unf ortunately, I saw,, 



that I will have to examine much american material^,to get a clear- 



picture. First, my most sincere thanks for the precious shipment,, 



which exceeded all my expectations. Now I can think about a finish: 



of my work t , and I shallbe working on the Mexicans right awayv, in 



order to get to a conclusion on items, which I have here for identi- 



fication from other herbaria, and to be able to raail them off,. The 



Pines of the first shipment I have examined:, and I shall write about 



them in a few days,,as I do not want to delay the posting of this 



letter. .Monophyllä certainly does not develop through growing* to- 



gether-, as the needle-bundle has only one tfell-bundle, but,if I may 



wvaKo; a guess, through abortion of the other needles of a jajras 5 - 



needle pine, of which the Single stem-round-developed needle does 



have the character. The examination of the shipped material 1 will 1 not 



delay me much, because, when I do have free time, I can prepare ea- 



sily a dozen speeimens in one day, so that I can handle in ten days 



one hundred or more. 



T arn still lackin^ insight into Taeda , . rigida , serotlna, What 



I did examine of these was possibly wrongly identified. That I was 



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so slow with the pines of the first shipment, had £ reason , that I 

 had to complete a large literary wofck , which took very much of my. 

 time. I had been solicited, to write about the influenae of forests 

 on rainfall 1 , because the people here have been quite confused,as 

 there has been little rain during 2 years. My opinion is, that the 

 forests have absolutely no influence on rain> , and this Stands in? 



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