Ree. April 7, I876 Weisswasser fm bohamian kingdorai* 



Ans,. April 8 f 1877 Austria, Europa 



March 18, 1876 

 * in Enp^lish in the original , E. D.. 



Most Honored Sir ! 



I often wanted to write and often deferred it.and examined nee- 

 dles and then started other jobs, and, a^rain deferred^, but now, for a 

 moment I can take a breath' and can shed for the raoment my most ur - 

 £-ent duties. I erröte one during Summer askin?r for seeds of araericarr 

 trees and shrubs in srnall 1 quantities, speoially of coni^ers. I do not" 

 know if you reeeived the lettei-, it will probably be too late for seeds. 

 The last sent Pinus from southern Europe from the donkey island near 

 Crete ( ^<Xldlrt^09 in new- Greek means the donkey, and ^^Srp^ixsL 

 the island) is Pinus maritima or bruttia , which certainly is very close 

 to halepensis , , but differs in the cone and also in microscopic struc- 

 ture. The latter however not substantially, but only through the g£a - 

 ter number of rosin duets- and more thickened bast-cells-, which, by the 

 way also occurs with varieties of the Laricis . (See sketch in original). 

 They both belong to the pines with' rim located rosin duets, which in' 

 America are represented only by resinosa ,and besides by Strobus m on » 

 .tecula , Acahuite , fleyilis v c imbrida. The second Pinus Heldreichii is a 

 form of Laricio, which resembles completely that ßrrowing in Dalmatiav 

 and I am surprised, that the label refers to entirely different cones.. 

 I have on the whole seen only this form of the Laricio from Easterrr 

 Europe and Asia,and only the J?enzlii from the Taurus approaches irr 

 microscopic strueture^he Spanish form. Cones of Fenzlii I have not yet 

 seen. .The third pine, which you send from Californis seems to be a Z - 

 needle form of a 3-needle species, but I do not know enoughr to identify ; 

 this properly* and quite generally, , the other 2 - needle pines of Ame- 

 rica are very close to the 3 - needle ones in strueture, so that I shall 1 

 have lots of work to separate the species and bring them in orderv 



